If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward, they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are never deceived. We deceive ourselves.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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