Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Liberty

• None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wisdom, Powerful, Freedom

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.3

• He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Winning, Liberty, Deserve

• Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Tolerance, Age

• Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Political, Promise, Liberty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

• It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Truth, Errors, Liberty

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.73, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• 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

  Liberty, Printing, Freedom Of The Press

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