More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."
"In art the best is good enough."
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
"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."