Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Read through the most famous quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe




Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#rules

This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#love

Everything is hard before it is easy


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#motivational

If you would create something, you must be something.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#life

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#experience

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#inspirational

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#inspirational

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#evil #faust #good #good-and-evil

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#cultivates #does #dominate

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.


— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


#knowledge #languages #travel #understanding #communication






About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes




Did you know about Johann Wolfgang von Goethe?

His conversations and various common undertakings throughout the 1790s with Schiller Johann Gottlieb Fichte Johann Gottfried Herder Alexander von Humboldt Wilhelm von Humboldt and August and Friedrich Schlegel have in later years been collectively termed Weimar Classicism. After returning from a tour of Italy in 1788 Goethe publiJohann Wolfgang von Goethed his first major work of a scientific nature the Metamorphosis of Plants. He was an early participant in the Sturm und Drang literary movement named for a play by his childhood friend Friedrich Maximilian Klinger.

Goethe's poems were set to music throughout the nineteenth century by a number of composers including Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Robert Schumann Johannes Brahms Hugo Wolf and Gustav Mahler. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈvɔlfɡaŋ fɔn ˈɡøːtə] ([Image] listen) 28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German writer artist and politician.

back to top