Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes


We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.


Citations

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Elective Affinities. Translated by James Anthony Froude and R. Dillon Boylan, Henry G. Bohn, 1854, p. 153.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Born: August 28, 1749
  • Died: March 22, 1832
  • Nationality: German
  • Profession: Poet, Novelist, Playwright

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, critic, and amateur artist. His works include: four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. He is considered to be the greatest German literary figure of the modern era.