West-östlicher Divan: Rendsch Nameh, Buch des Unmuts.
Gibt es überhaupt noch unübersetzten Goethe? Hast Du mal Google befragt?

Ja, und in der Bibl hab ich leider auch nichts gefunden. Hast Du nen Tipp?

He who cannot draw on three thousand years of history is living from hand to mouth, and will remain in the dark, inexperienced, living from day to day.

A rough translation

 http://forum.quoteland.com/1/OpenTopic?a=tpc...

There is some discussion on this quotation here, Werner.

 

 
Who is not three thousand years
are accountable to know
remains in the dark inexperienced
mag from day to day living. "

eine Rohfassung (autom. Übersetzung) - Quelle:

http://translate.google.com/translate_t?...

 

For what it's worth here's a verse translation by J. Whaley:

"He who cannot be far-sighted,
Nor three thousand years assay,
Inexperienced stays benighted,
Let him live from day to day."

(Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1979, S. 81)

Let him who fails to learn and mark
Three thousand years still stay,
Void of experience, in the dark,
And live from day to day.

 http://www.archive.org/stream/westeasterndiva...