The first scene of Goethe’s Faust is set at night, with a scholar alone in his study. Habe nun, ach! Philosophie, / Juristerei und Medizin, / Und leider auch Theologie … He has studied philosophy, law, medicine and, unfortunately, theology too. Yet he says: Und bin so klug als wie zuvor. And I am no wiser than before. Heiße Magister, heiße Doktor gar. I am called Master, even Doctor. He sees that we can know nothing. He is cleverer, he says, than all the fools, Doktoren, Magister, Schreiber und Pfaffen, doctors, masters, clerks and priests.