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
The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.