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 we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time.
Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
A distracted existence leads us to no goal
A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.