The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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