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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Two Thoughts from Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.


None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.


- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

UPDATE 2000 HRS EDT 28 APRIL 2009: Read also this background piece on Goethe's political views, courtesy of an anonymous commenter.

4 Comments:

Blogger jon said...

"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."

now there is a man who was beginning to understand the tao.

April 28, 2009 at 3:14 AM  
Blogger ReverendFranz said...

I used to have the first quote on the door at work, and watched it definitely confuse the boss of the next department over. I think that means it was a successful message.

April 28, 2009 at 4:49 AM  
Blogger Sean said...

I was going to type something awesome, but the fueng shwei or some other damn thing was so wrong I wound up shooting my keyboard, ten times, with a .45. All you eggheads happy now? Shit, hows a man supposed to have a bowel movement with a bunch of buffaloe rifles pointed at him?

April 28, 2009 at 2:25 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

See Hans-Hermann Hoppe on The Politics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe http://mises.org/story/357

April 28, 2009 at 3:02 PM  

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