A Guide to Autodidactism | Jack Kinsella
Jump to section In Faust: The First Part of the Tragedy, Goethe, the German author esteemed as highly in German literature as Shakespeare is in English literature, portrays a character named Faust who strived to learn everything that can be known: Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; I studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before."
