Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTrue works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheLet us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe