We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheTheories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe