Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it? (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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