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
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
On all the peaks lies peace.
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal.