“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Combine truth and invention for the sake of a closer approach to reality”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If we put ourselves in the place of other people, the jealousy and hatred we so often feel about them would disappear, and if we put others in our place, pride and conceit would greatly diminish.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kill Bill says:
The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the earth did not resist you – you would not exist. ~Kill Bill
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29th January 2012 at 10:54 am
Muck About says:
Damn German know-it-alls. I’m never sure how accurate the translation is.
MA
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29th January 2012 at 12:35 pm
Stucky says:
“All intelligent thoughts have already been thought;”
Actually, George W Bush said that.
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29th January 2012 at 1:42 pm