Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out...

Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out...

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If I love you, what business is it of yours?

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I...

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I...

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

A book is a storehouse carried in the pocket

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it...

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it...

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion,...

Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion,...

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion...

The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the...

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the...

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

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...

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

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

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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.

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.