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
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
The little man is still a man.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
In comradeship is danger countered best.