Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHumans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe