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
Action has magic, grace and power in it.
Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity, correctness. The greatest writer of all times. God's most astonishing creation.
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.
We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.