Practice Management

Goethe nails it.

By Dan Hull

We immortals do not like things to be taken seriously. We like joking.

Seriousness, young man, is an accident of time. It consists, I don't mind telling you in confidence, in putting too high a value on time. I, too, once put too high a value on time. I wished to be a hundred years old. In eternity, however, there is no time, you see. Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

--Goethe, dead, and possessed of a superior perspective, speaks to Harry Haller, in Steppenwolf (1927)

Hermann Hesse, 1929 (Photo: Gret Widman)

Full post as published by What About Clients? on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).