The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheOur hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe