Faust

By Johann Wolfgang Goethe QUOTATION: Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust, in Faust I, before the city gate (1808).

QUOTATION: Two souls, alas! reside within my breast.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust, in Faust, pt. 1, ch. 2, “Before The City Gate,” l. 1112 (1808), trans. by Bayard Taylor (1870-1871).

QUOTATION: Master and Doctor are my titles;
For ten years now, without repose,
I’ve held my erudite recitals
And led my pupils by the nose.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust, in Faust, pt. 1, “Night,” trans. by Philip Wayne.

QUOTATION: The deed is everything, the glory naught.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust, in Faust, pt. 2, act 4, sc. 1, “High Mountains,” (1832), trans. by Bayard Taylor (1870-1871).

QUOTATION: In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust in Faust II, act 1, Pleasant Landscape (1828).

QUOTATION: One errs as long as one strives.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust I, Prologue in Heaven (1808).

QUOTATION: A good person, striving dimly,
Is well aware of the right path.
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Faust I, Prologue in Heaven (1808).

QUOTATION: The Woman-Soul leadeth us
Upward and on!
ATTRIBUTION: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832), German poet, dramatist. Chorus Mysticus, in Faust, pt. 2, act 5, sc. 7 (1832), trans. by Bayard Taylor (1870-1871).

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