What meaning do you find behind this quote?

Question:Where there is much light, the shadow runs deep.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet/dramatist.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Where there is much light, the shadow runs deep.

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet/dramatist.

Hidden behind the good, there is always room for bad.
So basically be careful because the good can truly be that, or it could be a mask.

i think it means that the more good there is somewhere, the much light, then the more things there are to ruin it or try to make it miserable, the deep shadows

Being positive helps us go through pains and our eyes will shut when negativity's around

Those that have achieved enlightenment, great skill, a brightness of spirit if you will, have endured the darkness of doubt, fear and self loathing.....there must be one for the other to exist. Yin and yang, duality, opposites that must be for the other to exist.........you cannot appreciate the dawn if the night has not been dark and cold.......

The Taoist duality thing?

I don't see anything. You should read it in context.

This means that in really
understanding something, one must not just glaze the surface but delve deeply, so the whole answer emerges, even the most obscure innuendos.

If light represents knowledge, dark represents understanding.