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
After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
The greatest step forward would be to see that everything factual is already theory. The blueness of the sky reveals the basic lawof chromatics. Don't look for anything behind the phenomena, they themselves are the doctrine.
Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.