No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe