The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing is more dangerous than solitude.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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