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
Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
We have time enough if we but use it aright
Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
In art, the best is good enough.
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.
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.