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
Time flies, and what is past is done.
You are, when all is done-just what you are.
A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine - and even, alas! Theology - from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before.
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.