The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAll lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe