When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNormally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects it with other events, usually only amuses himself or makes sport of us, as, for instance, the naturalist or historian. But a single action or event is interesting, not because it is explainable, but because it is true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe