Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTheories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe