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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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He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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He who moves not forward goes backward.
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He who seizes the right moment, / Is the right man.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. And what is your duty? Whatever the day calls for.
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How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and that its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set in night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere.
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I am the spirit that always denies.
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I call architecture petrified music. Really there is something in this: The tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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I hate all bungling like sin, but most of all bungling in state affairs, which produces nothing but mischief to thousands and millions.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand how to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
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I think the best thing at a celebration is enjoyment of the food.
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If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
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If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.