More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
"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."
"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."
"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."