No 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 GoetheThis being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheDeeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWho are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe