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
Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.
Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.
Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in the epoch-making program.
Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Be valiant and powerful forces will come to your aid.
Power is neither male nor female.
Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]