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
One must be something, in order to do something.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
The society of women is the element of good manners.
Only the soul that loves is happy
Colour itself is a degree of darkness..
Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.