"He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm." ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Topic(s): Freedom More From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout." "Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction." "One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude." More In Freedom "The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception."― Peter Singer "When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality."― Muriel Spark "Success makes you less intimidated by things."― Nate Silver