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
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.