Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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