More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."