Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Slaves

• The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Slave

• The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Artist, Slave

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.242, Ravenio Books

• A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Slave, Command

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1964). “Goethe : [selected Verse]”

• We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Success, Giving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.70

• Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Nature, Mean

• Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Genius, Afar, Becoming

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

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