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 think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.