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Der Mensch erkennt nur das an und preist nur das, was er selber zu machen fähig ist; und da nun gewisse Leute in dem Mittleren ihre eigentliche Existenz haben, so gebrauchen sie den Pfiff, daß sie das wirklich Tadelnswürdige in der Literatur, was jedoch immer einiges Gute haben mag, durchaus schelten und ganz tief herabsetzen, damit das Mittlere, was sie anpreisen, auf einer desto größeren Höhe erscheine.
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).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
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
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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The best pleasures of this world are not quite true.
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The century advances; but every one of us starts anew.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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The deed is all, the glory nothing.
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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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The extraordinary does not happen in an ordinary way.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
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The future hides in it gladness and sorrow.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. What is genius but the faculty of seizing and turning to account everything that strikes us?
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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The man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his rewad in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
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The master proves himself in recognizing his limitations.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.