Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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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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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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