"Time itself is an element...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.”

“Man's restlessness makes him strive.”

“Is it not enough that we cannot make one another happy, must we also rob one another of the pleasures that any heart may permit itself now and then? And name me a person who in a bad mood will be decent enough to hide it, to bear it alone, without destroying the joy around him. Is it not rather an inner dissatisfaction with our own unworthiness, a dislike of ourselves that is always associated with envy aggravated by foolish conceit? We see people happy and not made happy by us, and that is unbearable.”

“Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.”

“The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.”

“Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits”

“At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.”

“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”

“To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.”