Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAlas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheReason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe