Faust

"Lets plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will - Its only action that can make a man."
"A part of the power that always wills what's evil, that always does whats good." (Mephistopheles)
"There's nothing sillier in the world, I say, than being a devil in despair." (Mephistopheles)
"All that comes into being is worthy of destruction." (Mephistopheles)
"I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine And even, alas! Theology, From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before;" (Faust Monologue, Trans. Bayard Taylor)
"Have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labour, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before." (Faust Monologue, Proj. Gutenberg version)
"That I may detect the inmost force Which binds the world, and guides its course;"
"Werd' ich zum Augenblicke sagen: Verweile doch! Du bist so schön! Dann magst du mich in Fesseln schlagen, Dann will ich gern zugrunde geh'n!"
"If to the moment I shall ever say: Ah, linger on, thou art so fair! Then may you fetters on me lay, Then will I perish, then and there!"