The present age has a bad habit of being abstruse in the sciences. We remove ourselves from common sense without opening up a higher one; we become transcendent, fantastic, fearful of intuitive perception in the real world, and when we wish to enter the practical realm, or need to, we suddenly turn atomistic and mechanical.


Scientific Studies (Volume 12), Chapter VIII (pp. 308-309)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The present age has a bad habit of being abstruse in the sciences. We remove ourselves from common sense without opening up a higher one; we become...

The present age has a bad habit of being abstruse in the sciences. We remove ourselves from common sense without opening up a higher one; we become...

The present age has a bad habit of being abstruse in the sciences. We remove ourselves from common sense without opening up a higher one; we become...

The present age has a bad habit of being abstruse in the sciences. We remove ourselves from common sense without opening up a higher one; we become...