When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providi… - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent.