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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Everyone hears only what he understands.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
In art the best is good enough.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
Nothing is worth more than this day.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
To create something you must be something.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
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Source:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/johann_wolfgang_von_goeth.html
Ed
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
