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
One never learns to understand truly anything but what one loves.
A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
Every offense is avenged on earth.
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
If ever the Divine appeared on earth, it was in the person of Christ.
Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions; one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.