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[MarshaV]

Greetings,

One small correction made to the quote, and I thought I'd 
mention that Mephistopheles' words are thickly sarcastic.   


Marsha 



On Feb 23, 2011, at 8:09 AM, MarshaV wrote:

> 
> On Feb 20, 2011, at 6:45 AM, ADRIE KINTZIGER wrote:
> 
>> e, good stuff, btw, think i will look for a pdf to read it.
>> 
>> I'll keep rehashing the phrase", you have the words, but that is all...
>> I don't think it was the same book.
>> Have to go now, have to ride 120 miles today on my bicycle.
>> Adrie
> 
> 
> 
> Mephisto:
> There never was a surer gate
> Into the temple, Certainty.
> 
> Student:
> Yet some idea there must be.
> 
> Mephisto: 
> All right.  But do not plague yourself too anxiously;
> For just where no ideas are
> The proper word is never far.
> With words a dispute can be won,
> With words a system can be spun,
> In words one can believe unshaken,
> And from a word no tittle can be taken.
>      (Goethe's Faust, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (Author), Walter Kaufmann (Translator,),pp.204-205)
> 
> 


 
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