Daily quote by Goethe's Faust

• Daß ich erkenne, was die Welt
  Im Innersten zusammenhält,
  Schau alle Wirkenskraft und Samen,
  Und tu nicht mehr in Worten kramen.
  • To grant me a vision of Nature's forces
    That bind the world, all its seeds and sources
    And innermost life—all this I shall see,
    And stop peddling in words that mean nothing to me.
  • Variant translation:
    That I may understand whatever
    Binds the world’s innermost core together,
    See all its workings, and its seeds,
    Deal no more in words’ empty reeds.
  • ––Faust, lines 382–5