None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen 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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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