Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - This is the highest wisdom that...

Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Source: Faust: A Tragedy

Quote

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 - Faust: A Tragedy

Translation

(German, French)

Das ist der Weisheit letzter Schluß: Der verdient sich Freiheit wie das Leben, Der täglich sie erobern muß.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust. Eine Tragödie

C'est le dernier mot de la sagesse: Seul mérite la liberté et la vie celui qui chaque jour doit les conquérir.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust. Une tragédie

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

Where there is love there is life.”
Mahatma Gandhi

All about life...

Quotes about wisdom:

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Michel de Montaigne

wisdom

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
Isaac Asimov

Silence is often the truest wisdom.”
Pindar

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;”
Leo Tolstoy

All about wisdom...

Quotes about freedom:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
George Bernard Shaw

Art is the daughter of freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller

To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.”
Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

hope

The aim of living is Life itself.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

life

It is not enough to take steps, which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green,”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

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