Hannah Arendt said: "Even when times are dark, we have the right to expect an illumination that does not necessarily come from theories and ideas, but mostly from a light that is indefinite and often very faint. This light comes from those men and women, from their lives and their writings. Whatever the situation, this light is always on, the light spreads, shining through the world and through their lives". It was for this reason that Goethe would ask on his deathbed: "More light".