Quote #89
The greatest happiness for the thinking man is to have fathomed the fathomable, and to quietly revere the unfathomable.
More from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Doubt grows with knowledge.
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error.
- A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
- Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
- All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
- Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.
- Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tatige Unwissenheit.