A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed wha… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist, philosopher, and for ten years chief minister of state at Weimar.

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Unter allen Völkerschaften haben die Griechen den Traum des Lebens am schönsten geträumt.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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