Quotes for All
Upon the publication of Goethe’s epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or indeed, to understand this magnum opus in its entirety, from this point onward his drama was the rule by which all other Faust adaptations were measured. Goethe had eclipsed the earlier legends and … Read more
I didn’t want to make a record that was just guitar and voice, that was just the technology available to me. At the time, I remember thinking, I am making a Faust album. That didn’t translate. Devendra Banhart
You received the power, the authority, and the sacred duty to minister the moment you were ordained to the priesthood. President James E. Faust taught, “Priesthood is the authority delegated to man to minister in the name of God. “The Aaronic Priesthood holds the keys of the ministering of angels. As you love His children, … Read more
Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the give up your soul for immortality or something. Cass Sunstein
Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to ‘develop’ my own photographic plates, and I haven’t a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn’t stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the … Read more
The writer is the Faust of modern society, the only surviving individualist in a mass age. To his orthodox contemporaries he seems a semi-madman. Boris Pasternak
Faust, the Ninth Symphony, and the will of Adolf Hitler are eternal youth and know neither time nor transience. Baldur von Schirach
In order to cultivate yourself and to drop no lower than the level of the milieu in which you have landed, it is not enough to read Pickwick and memorize a monologue from Faust… You need to work continually day and night, to read ceaselessly, to study, to exercise your will… Each hour is precious. … Read more