When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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