There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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