Tag: Johann von Goethe

We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

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What government is the best That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

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What is not fully understood is not possessed.

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.

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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

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Whenever I hear people talking about ‘liberal ideas,’ I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.

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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,– He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.

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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

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