The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHERemember to live.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost 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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