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"Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again." -
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Top 5 quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay."
"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
"Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity."
"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."
"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine."
Top 5 quotes from Thinking
"There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord."
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
"I am a thing that thinks, that is to say, a thing that doubts, affrims, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things, wills, refrains from willing, and also imagines and senses."
"What once was thought can never be unthought."
"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
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