More quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
"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."
"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
"If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
"I love those who yearn for the impossible."