Quotes from Goethe J.W.von

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

Ah yes, if I could have a magic cloak to whisk me off to foreign lands I should not trade it for the richest robes, nor for the mantle of a king.