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
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions
A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human.
Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together
Know thyself""? If I knew myself I'd run away
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.