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#1

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: knowledge

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#2

“By seeking and blundering we learn.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: education, experience, learning-from-mistakes

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#3

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: future, life, past, reflection, understanding

9001 likes

#4

“If I love you, what business is it of yours?”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: business, love

1373 likes

#5

“A person hears only what they understand.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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#6

“It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

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#7

“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#8

“What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#9

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration

3940 likes

#10

“This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: love

257 likes

#11

“The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.”
― Goethe

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#12

“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
― Goethe

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#13

“If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: crying, life, reality

1048 likes

#14

“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#15

“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#16

“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#17

“In order to be irreplaceacle, one must always be different.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: individuality

2175 likes

#18

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: beauty, class, fashion, girls, women

6062 likes

#19

“A woman who doesn't wear perfume has no future.”
― Coco Chanel

811 likes

#20

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
― Coco Chanel

tags: dresses, fashion, women

2304 likes

#21

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: paraphrased, strength

34011 likes

#22

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: lies, lying, trust

31597 likes

#23

“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: love, madness

7271 likes

#24

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5103 likes

#25

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

4933 likes

#26

“The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: nietzsche, readers, reading

352 likes

#27

“Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

432 likes

#28

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: perception, philosophy, scientific-process, truth

645 likes

#29

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: inspirational

662 likes

#30

“Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

5846 likes