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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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, Part One, Scene I, Night (opening monologue), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)
Faust's first words survey the four university faculties and confess the emptiness of his learning.
Citation: "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" — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Scene I, Night (opening monologue), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q3)
Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.
