Mephistopheles

“I still don't belong to anyone - I am mine.”
― Morrissey

“Like an all-devouring conflagration, ‘progress’ scours the Earth, and the place that has fallen to its flames, will flourish nevermore, so long as man still survives. The animal- and plant-species cannot renew themselves, man’s innate warmth of heart has gone, the inner springs that once nurtured the flourishing songs and sacred festivals are blocked, and there remains only a wretched and cold working day and the hollow show of noisy 'entertainment.’ There can be no doubt: we are living in the era of the downfall of the soul.”
― Ludwig Klages

“A classical work of literature can never be completely understood. But those who are educated and educating themselves must always desire to learn more from it.”
― Friedrich Schlegel

“To understand is to perceive patterns.”
― Isaiah Berlin