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
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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.
The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty.
Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.
We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.