Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so รผbersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so wird es alsobald etwas ganz anderes. Mathematicians are a kind of Frenchmen. Whenever you say anything or talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and right away it is something completely different.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheShakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCommonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe