Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSomeday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAt bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSomeday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe