Series VIII · Card 16 of 21 · THE SCRIPTORIUM
No one is more a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE · ELECTIVE AFFINITIES · 1809
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Source
“Elective Affinities” (Die Wahlverwandtschaften, 1809), part II, ch. 5, from Ottilie’s diary
About the author
German poet, naturalist and statesman (1749–1832). The leading author of Weimar Classicism, from “Faust” to “Elective Affinities”.
The question on the back
Are you as free as you feel?