Moral epochs have their course as well as the seasons. We can no more hold them fast than we can hold sun, moon, and stars. Our faults perpetually return upon us; and herein lies the subtlest difficulty of self-knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMan can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe