Real freedom and real slavery

Real freedom and real slavery May 30, 2015

 

Goethe Porträt von G. O. May
J. W. von Goethe (1779)
by Georg Oswald May

 

My, my, my.  Applications for this quotation (in talks on morality, in responses to triumphant apostates, and so forth) are far from difficult to think of.  But, obviously, we shouldn’t only (or even primarily) apply to others.  It can and should also be used for self-examination:

 

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.  (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

 

Posted from Berlin, Germany

 


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