There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHe who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAt all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSuperstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe