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"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it"
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/15728">Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/2895/">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/subject/freedom/">Freedom</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>

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