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
We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
Instruction does much, but encouragement everything." (Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.