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
For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.
Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
One spares old people just as one spares children.