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
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.
Doubt can only be removed by action.
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.