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 GOETHEIn the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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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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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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