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
He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.
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.
If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty.
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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.
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.
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.