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 would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily in recalling the memories of past misfortunes, instead of trying to bear an indifferent present.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once
He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines
If youth is a fault, it is one which is soon corrected
The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality
If a man makes continuous efforts, we can save him.
If your 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.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will stay as he is, but if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united
It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.
People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.
If you would create something, you must be something