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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.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Live dangerously and you live right.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust (1806)
- Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- More light! Give me more light!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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