She tosses her creatures out of nothingness, and tells them not whence they came, nor whither they go. It is their business to run, she knows the road.


Translated by Thomas Huxley, Nature: Aphorisms by Goethe, Nature, Volume 1, Thursday, November 4, 1869 (p. 9)

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She tosses her creatures out of nothingness, and tells them not whence they came, nor whither they go. It is their business to run, she knows the...

She tosses her creatures out of nothingness, and tells them not whence they came, nor whither they go. It is their business to run, she knows the...

She tosses her creatures out of nothingness, and tells them not whence they came, nor whither they go. It is their business to run, she knows the...

She tosses her creatures out of nothingness, and tells them not whence they came, nor whither they go. It is their business to run, she knows the...