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“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

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“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Collected Works

tags: bigotry, ignorance, life, prejudice

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“Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities

tags: bounds, enslavement, error, false-belief, freedom, freedom-of-thought, imprisonment

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“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

tags: fear, freedom, meaning-of-life, psychology, purpose-of-life, work

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