Man is born, not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem applies, and then to restrain himself within the limits of the comprehensible.


Wednesday 12 October 1825. Johann Peter Eckermann, Conversations with Goethe, ed. J. K. Moorhead and trans. J. Oxenford (1971)

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Man is born, not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem applies, and then to restrain himself within the limits of...

Man is born, not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem applies, and then to restrain himself within the limits of...

Man is born, not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem applies, and then to restrain himself within the limits of...

Man is born, not to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out where the problem applies, and then to restrain himself within the limits of...