A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWere not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun; if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWe do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe