versagen

Updated: January 4, 2026

"We come like water, and like wind we go." But how few of the visions are realized. Faust sums up the whole of life in the twice-repeated word versagen, renounce, and history tells a similar story.

John Mason Tyler - The Whence and the Whither of Man : A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895