Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, letter to J. D. Falk (January 25, 1813), in Werke, Briefe und Gespräche (Zurich: Artemis-Ausgabe, 1949), Vol. 22, p. 680.
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Where knowledge suffices, we have no need of belief; but where knowledge does not prove its virtue or appears insufficient, we should not dispute the rights of belief.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Belief
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