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Quotation from Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“My worthy friend, gray are all theories, And green alone Life’s golden tree.”
Faust, Part One, Scene IV, The Study (German ll. 2038-2039), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870)
Disguised as Faust, Mephistopheles closes his advice to the Student by setting life against learning.
Citation: "My worthy friend, gray are all theories, And green alone Life’s golden tree." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part One, Scene IV, The Study (German ll. 2038-2039), trans. Bayard Taylor (1870). (id goethe-faust-part-one-q7)
Portrait: Goethe (Stieler 1828), Joseph Karl Stieler, Public domain.
