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
The unnatural, that too is natural.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Precaution is better than cure.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.