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Wenn wir die Menschen nur nehmen, wie sie sind, so machen wir sie schlechter. Wenn wir sie behandeln, wie sie sein sollten, so bringen wir sie dahin, wohin sie zu bringen sind.
Informationen über Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jurist, 6. 8. 1771 Promotion zum "Licentitatus Juris", Dichter, Staatsminister, 1782 geadelt, "Die Leiden des jungen Werthers", "Faust": Erstaufführung am 8. 6. 1829, das dramatische Weltgedicht enthält 12.111 Verse (Deutschland, 1749 - 1832).
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wäre heute 275 Jahre, 0 Monate, 24 Tage oder 100.466 Tage alt.
Geboren am 28.08.1749 in Frankfurt am Main
Gestorben am 22.03.1832 in Weimar
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.
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A new year brings new duties, a new morn calls for vigorous deeds. I wish you pleasure in what you do and courage and strength for your work the whole day through.
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A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
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A useless life is an early death.
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A useless life is only an early death.
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Age makes us not childish, as some say; it finds us still true children.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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All theory, dear friend, is grey, but the golden tree of actual life springs ever green.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly till they take firm root in our personal experience.
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Altogether, national hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
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An auspicious day is like a day of harvest: you must act with vigour as soon as it ripens.
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An idea would never be liberal: It must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night.
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Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.