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 a man makes continuous efforts, we can save him.
Man is not born to solve the problems of the universe, but to find out what he has to do... within the limits of his comprehension.
A man that all the world hates, there must be something about him.
A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise
Es gibt kein Vergangenes, daß man zurücksehnen dürfte, es gibt nur ein ewig Neues, daß sich aus den erweiterten Elementen des Vergangenen gestaltet; und die echte Sehnsucht muß stets produktiv sein, ein neues Besseres zu schaffen.
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
He who seizes the right moment, is the right man
The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions
The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once