More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"Love can do much, but duty more."
"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."
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."
"I love those who yearn for the impossible."