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
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty
Time flies, and what is past is done.
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.