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
Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.
Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
It is better to busy one's self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless
We need a constitution, we need rules, but we don't need a wall,
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world
I am not omniscient, but much is known to me.
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do.
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that
If I love you, what does that matter to you!