To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Related topics

exception great lend love majority selves version others

Related quotes

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough. View quote
Maurice Maeterlinck
The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. View quote
Tryon Edwards
If you love two people, pick the second, because if you truly loved the first, you wouldn't have fallen for the second. View quote
Johnny Depp
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. View quote
Sydney Smith