The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“ Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein . None are more hopelessly enslaved than… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love? — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Weary of liberty, he suffered himself to be saddled and bridled, and was ridden to death for his pains.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
