Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
As translated by Jerome Rothenberg
Venetian Epigrams (1790)
“There are so many clues and feelings in the world that it makes a mystery and a mystery means there's a puzzle to be solved. Once you think like that you're hooked on probably finding a meaning, and there' many avenues in life where we're given little indications that the mystery can one day be solved. we get little proofs, — not the big proof — but the little proofs that keep us searching.”
McKenna interview (1992)
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