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
There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.
Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.
When married one has to get into an argument once in a while since in this way one learns about the other.
There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.
And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.