Maxim and Reflections — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Maxim and Reflections

Every great idea is a tyrant when it first appears hence the advantages which it produces change all too quickly into disadvantages It is possible then to defend and praise any institution that exists if its beginnings are brought to remembrance and it is shown that everything which was true of it at the beginning is true of it still

Every great idea is a tyrant when it first appears hence the advantages which it produces change all too quickly into disadvantages It is possible then to defend and praise any institution that exists if its beginnings are brought to remembrance and it is shown that everything which was true of it at the beginning is true of it still