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
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth...
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
Live dangerously and you live right.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Every second is of infinite value.