He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEverything transitory is but an image.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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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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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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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