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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good.”
Faust, Part One, Scene III, The Study (German ll. 1335-1336), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)
Asked who he is, Mephistopheles answers with a riddle that admits his evil serves a larger good.
Citation: "Part of that Power, not understood, Which always wills the Bad, and always works the Good." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Scene III, The Study (German ll. 1335-1336), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q5)
Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.
