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
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.
What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
The coward only threatens when he is safe.
If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.