“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.” — Goethe Copy Share Image
The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3 — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“FAUST You seem to like eavesdropping. MEPHISTOPHELES I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“That I may understand whatever binds the world's innermost core together, see all its workings, and its seeds. - Faust” — John Sheehan Copy Share Image
“... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“No matter what happens now You shouldn’t be afraid Because I know today has been the most perfect day I’ve ever seen.” — Radiohead Copy Share Image
“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“When he comes to the door he always looks mocking and half-way angry. You can see he has sympathy for nothing. It's… — Goethe Copy Share Image
“My one regret is that my own knowledge of European literature at that time was too shallow to inform him that there… — Ben Watson Copy Share Image
“(Marlowe's) Faustus stubbornly reverts to his atheistic beliefs and continues his elementary pagan re-education ~ the inferno to him is a 'place'… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background;… — Gustav Stresemann Copy Share Image
“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to… — William Logan Copy Share Image
There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I didn't want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an… — Bret Harte Copy Share Image
You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James… — David L. Beck Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The albino found himself brooding upon the nature of all unholy bargains, of his own dependency upon the hellsword Stormbringer, of his… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
“O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars; Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The great prophetic work of the modern world is Goethe’s Faust , so little appreciated among the Anglo-Saxons. Mephistopheles offers Faust unlimited… — Robert Aickman Copy Share Image
“Let us imagine a coming generation with such intrepidity of vision, with such a heroic penchant for the tremendous; let us imagine… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“While the Eternal Feminine in Faust II still appears in personalized form as the Madonna, she works her effects in The Magic… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“Faustus, who embraced evil and shunned righteousness, became the foremost symbol of the misuse of free will, that sublime gift from God… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Through many a long day you'll be taught That what you once did without thinking, As easy as if it were eating… — Goethe Copy Share Image
“Mephistopheles' contentious, often ambiguous relationship to Faustus is a reference to tantra just as it is to alchemy. It resembles the shifting… — Ramona Fradon Copy Share Image
“... Faustus ... dared to confirm he had advanced beyond the level of a scarlet sinner — he was a conscious follower… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Faust has spent his youth and manhood, not as others do, in the sunny crowded paths of profit, or among the rosy… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
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