“... the lofty mind of man can be imprisoned by the artifices of its own making.” — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust. — 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
“(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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“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 Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider. For me,… — Rufus Wainwright 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
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll 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
“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
“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
“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
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
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
“Thus, Marlowe posed the silent question: could aspiring Icarus be happy with a toilsome life on land managing a plough with plodding… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
“Being full of mischief, they love to listen; they gladly obey, for they like to betray you, pretending to be sent from… — Goethe Copy Share Image
“Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge for mankind in polished speeches that are no more than vaporous winds rustling the… — Goethe Copy Share Image
Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment,… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
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