Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Is it so big a mystery
what god and man and world are?
No! but nobody knows how to solve it
so the mystery hangs on.


As translated by Jerome Rothenberg - Venetian Epigrams (1790)


Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.

Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.