Thursday, 30 August 2018

Yet unheimlich


"Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

Maxim 542
 
in Maximen und Reflexionen (Maxims and Reflections (1833)). Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, philosopher (1749-1832)
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