“No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.”

German polymath and writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Goethe is best known for his novel *The Sorrows of Young Werther*, which became a defining work of Sturm und Drang. His later masterpiece, *Faust*, remains a cornerstone of world literature, exploring human ambition and the search for meaning.