Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheNormally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheRest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThis is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe