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Verachte nur Vernunft und Wissenschaft,
des Menschen allerhöchste Kraft,
laß nur in Blend- und Zauberwerken
dich von dem Lügengeist bestärken,
so hab' ich dich schon unbedingt.

These wonderful lines from Faust, Part 1, lines 1851-1855, 
express Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's view of human reason 
and science, and the consequence of their abandonment by 
proponents of superstition. The excerpt has been translated 
in a variety of ways. Walter Kaufmann (1961, p. 195) gives 
it in a rhyming translation as follows:

Have but contempt for reason and for science,
Man's noblest force spurn with defiance,
Subscribe to magic and illusion,
The Lord of Lies aids your confusion,
And, pact or no, I hold you tight.

Carlyle F. MacIntyre also prefers a rhyming translation:

Scoff at all knowledge and despise
reason and science, those flowers of mankind,
Let the father of all lies
with dazzling necromancy make you blind,
then I'll have you unconditionally.

Stuart Atkins (1994, p.47), in a literal and non-rhyming translation, has it as follows:

Scorn learning, if you must, and reason,
the highest faculty mankind possesses,
let your fondness for self-deception
involve you deeper still in magic and illusion,
and its dead certain you'll be mine!

Despise reason and science,
humanity's greatest powers,
indulge in illusions and magical practices
that reinforce your self-deception,
and you will be unconditionally lost!

complied by S. D. Schafersman

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I don't understand my own point of view unless I understand those opposing it, and I don't understand those opposing viewpoints until I can state them so well those who hold them agree with my summary

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