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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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life
Superstition is the poetry of life
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men
Personality is everything in art and poetry
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well
On all the peaks lies peace
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action
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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