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
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.