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Verum Insights
- Marcus Nikos
- Jan 26
- 4 min read
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
“To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.”
A person hears only what they understand.”
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.”
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
“Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.”
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
Everything is hard before it is easy”
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
“I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own”
“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.”
“At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.”
“You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never
Rises from the soul, and sways
The heart of every single hearer,
With deepest power, in simple ways.
You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,
Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps,
Blowing on a miserable fire,
Made from your heap of dying ash.
Let apes and children praise your art,
If their admiration’s to your taste,
But you’ll never speak from heart to heart,
Unless it rises up from your heart’s space.”
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!”
“People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.”
“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
“If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.”
“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
“If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.”
― Goethe
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, First Part
tags: faust, goethe, mephistopheles
“It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.”
― Goethe
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?”
“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
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“Tell a wise person, or else keep silent,
because the mass man will mock it right away.
I praise what is truly alive,
what longs to be burned to death.
In the calm water of the love-nights,
where you were begotten, where you have begotten,
a strange feeling comes over you,
when you see the silent candle burning.
Now you are no longer caught
in the obsession with darkness,
and a desire for higher love-making
sweeps you upward.
Distance does not make you falter.
Now, arriving in magic, flying,
and finally, insane for the light,
you are the butterfly and you are gone.
And so long as you haven't experienced
this: to die and so to grow,
you are only a troubled guest
on the dark earth.”
“If you would create something,
you must be something.”
“Leap and the net will appear.”
“We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. ”
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
