“All theory is gray, my friend. But forever green is the tree of life.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. — Baldur von Schirach Copy Share Image
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust. — 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
“Just take a look at our patrons, and you'll know Some don't appreciate us, others never will.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
For those of you who thought F. W. Murnau's 'Nosferatu' was his greatest film, I have news for you: his 'Faust' blows… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
“That which issues from the heart alone, Will bend the hearts of others to your own.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I was keen to stage 'Faust,' although I find Goethe's 'Faust' indigestible. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
All literature is a footnote to Faust. I have no idea what I mean by that. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Mephistopheles, the machine man, can provide us with all the means, and is thus likely to determine the aims of life as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The courageous testimony of Dr. Faust that a maiden's smile is more precious than history, philosophy, education, religion, law, politics,economics, and all… — Osamu Dazai 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
Squeezing yourself to ooze out the last ounce of sex allure is terribly hard. I'd like to do roles like Julie in… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
“In fact a favourite problem of [John Tyndall] is—Given the molecular forces in a mutton chop, deduce Hamlet or Faust therefrom. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My favorite record shop was called Recommended Records, in South London near where I lived - they did all the original Faust… — Tim Gane 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
“If you had swum across the furthest ocean And seen the vastness of infinity Though dread of death might seize you, you'd… — Goethe Copy Share Image
Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or… — Anonymous 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
“Du, Erde, warst auch diese Nacht beständig Und atmest neu erquickt zu meinen Füßert, Beginnest schon mit Lust mich zu umgeben, Du… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Victor Faust did much more than help me escape a life of abuse and servitude. He changed me. He changed the landscape… — J.A. Redmerski Copy Share Image
My dear young friends, I speak to you as one who stands on the edge of eternity. From that perspective, I see… — James E. Faust 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
“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
“... 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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