“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.” — Anonymous 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
“... 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
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
“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
“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
Certainly Star Wars has a valid mythological perspective. It shows the state as a machine and asks, "Is the machine going to… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus… — Nicholas Samstag 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 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
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
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
Faust was this mythical figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. The Japanese have made that Faustian bargain… — Michio Kaku 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
“Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a… — Thomas Carlyle 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
“Goethe’s Faust risks all if he should cry to the moment, the 'augenblick', “Verweile doch!” “Last forever!” Who hasn’t prayed that prayer?… — Annie Dillard 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
![“[The Devil] Mephistopheles, when he comes to Faust, testifies of himself that he desires evil, yet does only good. Well, let him do as he likes, it's quite the opposite with me. I am perhaps the only man in all of nature who loves the truth and sincerely desires good.” quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ea/fyodor-dostoyevsky-94_quote_the-devil-mephistopheles-when-he-comes-t_2005938.jpg)
