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
Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
If you don't feel it, you'll never get it.
If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
We have time enough if we but use it aright
That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.