The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNo one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe