One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe