Basic characteristics of an individual organism: to divide, to unite, to merge into the universal, to abide in the particular, to transform itself, to define itself, and as living things tend to appear under a thousand conditions, to arise and vanish, to solidify and melt, to freeze and flow, to expand and contract. Since these effects occur together, any or all may occur at the same moment.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe