Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going”
“Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.”
“Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.”
“Few people have the imagination for reality.”
“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.”
“You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere”
“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.”
“Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking”
“Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.”