Faust

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe QUOTATION: Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Mephistopheles, in Faust I, Witch’s Kitchen scene (1808).

QUOTATION: I’ve studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine—
And even, alas! Theology—
From end to end with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust, in Faust, pt. 1, “Night,” (1808), trans. by Bayard Taylor (1870-1871).

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