More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Character develops itself in the stream of life."
"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."
"Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal."
"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."
"The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become."