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Faust Quotes

Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic. Otto von Bismarck
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly..."
Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
[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. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some comfort it would have been, could I, like a Faust, have fancied myself tempted and tormented of the Devil; for a Hell, as I imagine, without Life, though only Diabolic Life, were more frightful: but in our age of Downpulling and Disbelief, the very Devil has been pulled down, you cannot so much as believe in a Devil. To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility: it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference,... Thomas Carlyle
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the..."
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
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quote: "The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing..."
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
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage. Gustav Stresemann

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