Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Freedom
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
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I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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