None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. — 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
The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be. — 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
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew. — 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
What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right! — 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
“ 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
“Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks.” — 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
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
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
“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
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… — 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
“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
“He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers 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 his life Who takes them every day by storm. — 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
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
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
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
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
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
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
Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share
