Mephistopheles Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mephistopheles
Omnipotent not omniscient. We are frequently blinded by how much we see. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Mystery is but another name for ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain! — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
“they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing;” — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Our delusions of omniscience play a role in our ideas of not only what we want but also what we want to escape. — Sheila Heti Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
At the risk of quoting Mephistopheles I repeat: Welcome to hell. A hell erected and maintained by human-governments, and blessed by black robed judges.… — Mumia Abu-Jamal 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 well. But… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it. Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God And tasted the… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortured and remain forever. Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self… — Christopher Marlowe Copy Share Image
Heed not Mephistopheles, my children, lest you suffer eternal damnation. When he whispers in your ear, turn away your head and hearken instead to… — Harry Segall 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 breathing Lady… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good will my soul do thy lord? Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom. Faustus: Is that the reason he… — Christopher Marlowe 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
