More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I love those who yearn for the impossible."
"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using 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."
"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."
"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."