More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!"
"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."
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."