Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Identity
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Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
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Mathematics has the completely false reputation of yielding infallible conclusions. Its infallibility is nothing but identity. Two times two is not four, but it is just two times two, and that is what we call four for short. But four is nothing new at all. And thus it goes on and on in its conclusions, except that in the higher formulas the identity fades out of sight.
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