"... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!"
- E.A. Bucchianeri
"You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it."
- Idries Shah
"Des Menschen Kraft, im Dichter offenbartThe human power is revealed by poetIl potere dell'umanità si rivela nel poeta"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"15"General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune."
"Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment can ever be a proper feeling for the human mind."
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
"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 entir..."