Wisdom, Morality and Religion
The Highest
Do you desire the highest, the greatest?
A plant can instruct you.
What it unconsciously is,
will it! ’Tis all you can do.
Das Höchste
Suchst du das Höchste, das Grösste?
Die Pflanze kann es dich lehren;
Was sie willenlos ist,
sei du es wollend — das ist’s!
Piety and Natural Science
Had ye the power, O ye dreamers,
to grasp your ideals completely,
Certainly you would revere
Nature, for that is her due.
Had ye, philistines, the power,
to conceive the great whole of all nature,
Surely your path could but lead
up to ideal domains.