Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germany
28 Aug 1749 // 22 Mar 1832
Poet / Novelist / Humanist / Scientist / Philosopher
28 Aug 1749 // 22 Mar 1832
Poet / Novelist / Humanist / Scientist / Philosopher
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together
In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable
In all things it is better to hope than to despair
He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion
He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays