"First and last, what is demanded of..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.”

“A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.”

“There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.”

“Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.”

“Genius detects through the fly, through the caterpillar, through the grub, through the egg, the constant individual; through countless individuals the fixed species; through many species the genus; through all genera the steadfast type; through all the kingdoms of organized life the eternal unity. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.”

“The most attractive class of people are those who are powerful obliquely, and not by the direct stroke: men of genius, but not yetaccredited: one gets the cheer of their light, without paying too great a tax.”

“Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our illusions.”

“The stream is always purer at its source.”

“He in whom the love of truth predominates . . . submits to the inconvenience of suspense and imperfect opinion; but he is a candidate for truth . . . and respects the highest law of his being.”