All JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Quotes about “Devil”

“We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.”
“I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.”
“Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.”
“When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]”
“Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord plays and the devil works the bellows.”
“If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.”
“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”
“No, no! The devil is an egotist, And is not apt, without why or wherefore, "For God's sake," others to assist. [Ger., Nein, nein! Der Teufel ist ein Egoist Und thut nicht leicht um Gottes Willen, Was einem Andern nutzlich ist.]”
“The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.”

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