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
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
Come my little one, and give me your hand.
A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
Before you can do something, you must first be something.
All truths are old, and all that we have to do is recognize and utter them anew.