Goethe works include epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and color; and four novels.
Cheekiness aside, the reason for reason is self-evident and fractal in nature. Where thoughts converge, Reason is present. Gifts of repeatability and the awareness to know better (from worse). If no one is around to tell the story, reason falls silent. So let your words burn, not your planet.
The wisdom here is a pragmatic sort of reductionism. By choosing your opportunities wisely you are enacting the body-minded brain as the protagonist and the ideology of autonomous action formally known as free will.
