We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEveryone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTheories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe