Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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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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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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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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