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
Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
It makes no good to point the failures out without showing at the same time the remedy to address them.
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.