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
If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own
I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial
All that is transitory is only an image.
Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light
Superstition is poetry of life, so that it does not injure the poet to be superstitious
He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
Know thyself""? If I knew myself I'd run away
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.