Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Exception Greatness Himself Love Oneself
Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Deep Life Night
Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Appearance Oneself
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Importance Mercy Worth
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Inspirational Result Start
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Achievement Man
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Heart Myself Philosophy Presence Soul
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Children Easy Hard Time Parents
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Independent Life Trust Yourself
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Beautiful Forever Hide Law Secret
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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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Eat Life Taste Yourself
The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Fame One Liner Worth
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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Character Himself Transformation
And all must follow in my wake.
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Myself Wake Up
A person hears only what they understand.
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Deep Person Understand
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Business I Love You Myself
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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Heart Myself See
Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Heart Judgement Myself Ourselves Pursue
We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Institution Mad Mental Ourselves
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Difficult Inspirational
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Carry Heart Man See World
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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Happiness Joy Man Value
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Evil Greatness Himself Sick
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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