Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."

"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."

"If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like."

"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."

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

"In art the best is good enough."

"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"

"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."

"If you would create something,you must be something."

"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun."

"Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go."