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
If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]
Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
A useless life is an early death.
Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.