Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832
Birthday: August 28
Death: March 22
I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.
source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walter Arnold Kaufmann (1963). “Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two”, Anchor
topic: Evil, Elements, Spirit, Mephistopheles
