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“Encourage the beautiful, the useful will take care of itself.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

widely attributed to Goethe without citation from the works of Goethe
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“More light!”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Last words, as quoted in The Medico-chirurgical Review and Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 24 (1834), p. 501 [He apparently, here, asking for the shutters to be opened to admit more light, nothing more.]
Original: (de) Mehr Licht!

“I know a little of navigation: / War, trade, and piracy, allow, / As three in one, no separation.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust

Source: Faust, Part 2 (1832), Act V, Scene 3

“The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!
A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe book Faust

Source: Faust. Translation by Bayard Taylor