Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Faust Quotes
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.
What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?
If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
To end the greatest work designed, A thousand hands need but one mind.
By Fortune's adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!
If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute.
The world turns gray, the air grows cool, the fog blows in. Only at evening can you really value home.
Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores, Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours.
The Church has an excellent appetite. She has swallowed whole countries and the questionHas never risen of indigestion. Only the Church . . . can take Ill-gotten goods without stomach-ache!
I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.
