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
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
Method will teach you to win time.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
We must be young to do great things.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
The older we grow, the greater become the ordeals.
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.