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The Brain has selected interesting
relevant
sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our
fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Richard Hosking,
Paranormal Investigator
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For these reasons, like Faust in the opening scenes of Goethe's verse epic, we have scanned the pages of the Bible to see what clues this document, unquestionably a foundational structure in the popular culture of the West, might reveal.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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If Goethe's Faust expressed the doubts and scepticism of the Western man - Dostoyevski's Ivan Karamazov expressed the doubts and intolerance towards earthly imperfections in a Russian proud mind.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Man's rule upon the earth has been but a whisper, a heartbeat, that "fleeting moment" of Goethe's Faust, one brief moment compared to endless ages when the dinosaurs ruled, when no mammal walked, when serpents ruled, masked and mystical, cowled and crimson, cold and dark, of the night, of the night.
By the time we get to the prologue to Goethe's Faust , says Frye, "the conception of God as the infinitely skillful juggler of planets is only a subject for parody.
One major distinguish feature of Goethe's Faust is that he contracted his soul not for knowledge and ability but rather for a moment of complete happiness and satisfaction-- which he never recieved.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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There is a magnificent stage and auditorium, where the Mystery Plays are given regularly as well as Goethe's Faust in full, other plays and concerts, and frequent performances of eurythmy.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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This was not Goethe's Faust, but the Faust of the ancient, traditional tale, not a drama summing up the entire philosophy of a great poet and a bit more, but rather a scream to heaven for redemption from the torment and fear of the worldly life, emerging directly from the deepest depth of the people's soul.
Thus the problem which tormented Faust, in the opening scenes of Goethe's verse narrative (penned, it is assumed, when the poet was in his twenties), was not some abstruse question of metaphysics.
There is no way we can enter here and now into a thorough discussion of Goethe's Faust; thousands -if not actually millions- of pages have been written over the years discussing all the many facets of this universally recognized literary masterpiece.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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I propose, in what follows, to take these few clues as they occur in the sequence (roughly) in which they occur and comment upon them as they relate to the central themes of Goethe's Faust, and the major imagery of the I.
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Khalid Binalshibh,
Taxi Driver
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Fond of the quotation from Goethe's Faust , " Im Anfang war die Tat (In the beginning was the deed), "which he quotes in On Certainty , Wittgenstein conceived of language at its most basic level as forms of human action.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Goethe's Faust would not have been able to tell me, as a child, anything; to be honest, it still does not tell me even today what it probably wanted to tell and should have told mankind; but those puppets spoke loudly, almost too loudly, and what they said was great, infinitely great, because it was so simple, so infinitely simple: a devil, who may only return to God, if he brings that human soul along!
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