"For all must into Nothing fall, if it will persist in Being..."

[LBM]

Name that quote! (please :( ) I have read it in Richard Powers' "Prisoner's Dilemma" and it holds much significance, however I do not know who wrote it?

Thanks!

[Rae_17]

Name that quote! (please :( ) I have read it in Richard Powers' "Prisoner's Dilemma" and it holds much significance, however I do not know who wrote it?

Thanks!


good news for you....and some bad news. A poet named Goethe said that...but I can't seem to find the poem in which it was said. If you do...let me know?

[Quixote]

The poem is "Eins und Alles" or 'One and All' when translated to English and is indeed by Goethe. I love this quotation myself and spent a fair bit of time tracking down the answer to this. You're also likely to find a variety of translations of the particular quotation, if you track down the poem, depending on who your translator is. The one I happened to come across was: "For everything to naught must fall, / If constant being is its will."