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 there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
Colors are light's suffering and joy
We're only really thinking when we can't think out fully what we are really thinking about!
I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.
Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!