Thursday, February 21, 2008

No wiser

I've studied new Philosophy,
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,
And even, alas, Theology,
From end to end with labor keen;
And here, poor fool; with all my lore,
I stand no wiser than before.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
_Faust_ [1808-1832], "Faust in His Study"