To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Topics: Famous Love Quotes, Love Quotes

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to...

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to...

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a...

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a...

Precaution is better than cure.

Precaution is better than cure.

He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not...

He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not...

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it...

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it...

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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

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

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the...

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the...

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Live dangerously and you live right.

Live dangerously and you live right.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something...

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something...

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact...

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact...

Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's...

Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's...

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge...

It is a commonplace of modern technology that problems have solutions before there is knowledge...

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them