More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
"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."
"At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you."
"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."
"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."