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
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
A world without love would be no world.
The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.