Born 28 August 1749
Free Imperial City of Frankfurt or Frankfurt on Main, Holy Roman Empire
Died 22 March 1832 (aged 82)
Weimar, Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
Was a German writer and polymath.Goethe is considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language and one of the most important thinkers in Western culture.
~"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
~"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
~"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."
~"We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden."
~"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."
