Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann WolfgangGoethetə/; German: ; 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour; and four novels. In addition, numerous literary and scientific fragments, more than 10,000 letters, and nearly 3,000 drawings by him exist...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 August 1749
CountryGermany
Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
With knowledge comes more doubt.
True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
Few men have imagination enough for reality.
Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
Every form correctly seen is beautiful
Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores & sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.