In the “Prologue in Heaven” of Goethe’s Faust, the Lord speaks to Mephisto about man: Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt. Man errs as long as he strives. A little later in the same scene, the Lord says that a good man, in his dark urge, still knows the right way: Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunklen Drange, / Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewußt.