More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"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."