"Misology" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... departure from the scheme that forms the underplot of Goethe's Faust, and of Marlowe's Faustus, and was intended to constitute the plan of Coleridge's Michael Scott. It has been well said that the theme of the Faust is the consequence of a misology, or hatred of knowledge, resulting upon an original thirst for knowledge baffled. Faust never does from the beginning love knowledge for itself, but he loves it for the means it affords for the acquisition of power. This base purpose defeats itself; and ...
— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine |
