One never goes so far as when one doesn't know
where one is going.

Der beste Reiseplan wird durch einen albernen Zufall gestört, und man geht nie weiter, als wenn man nicht weiß, wohin man geht.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Exploration Adventure

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letter

Language

German

Time

1812 1810s 19th century

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Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Letter to Carl Friedrich Zelter. 3 Nov. 1812.

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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Iphigenia in Tauris

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Topic
Mellowing with age Life lessons
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Pylades

Author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source
Iphigenia in Tauris
Medium
Play
Language
German
Time
1787 1780s 18th century
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Original Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Iphigenie auf Tauris [Iphigenia in Taurus]. 1779, Ducal private theater, Weimar, Germany, act 4, sc. 4.

Current Citation

Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. "Iphigenia in Tauris." Goethe: The Collected Works: Verse Plays and Epic, edited by Cyrus Hamlin and Frank Ryder. Vol. 8, Princeton University Press, 1995, act 4, sc. 4.

Another quote from the 1810s

Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain. And the future as the past would be present to its eyes.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

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Topic
Predicting the future Determinism

Author

Pierre-Simon Laplace
Source
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
Language
French
Time
1812 1810s 19th century
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Citation

Laplace, Pierre-Simon. Theorie Analytique des Probabilities [Analytic Theory of Probability]. Paris: Madame Va Courcier, 1812.

Another quote originally in German

Who reflects too much will accomplish little.

Friedrich Schiller

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Thinking vs. doing
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Wilhelm Tell

Author

Friedrich Schiller
Source
Wilhelm Tell
Medium
Play
Genre
Drama (play) Drama
Language
German
Time
1804 1800s 19th century
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Citation

Schiller, Friedrich. Wilhelm Tell [William Tell]. 17 Mar. 1804, Weimarer Hoftheatre (now Deutsche Nationaltheatre Weimar), Weimar, Germany, act 3, sc. 1.