But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.


Documents on International Affairs, 1963, Royal Institute of International Affairs, ed. Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett, p. 36. - Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt

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But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: Stay, thou art so fair. And our...

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: Stay, thou art so fair. And our...

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: Stay, thou art so fair. And our...

But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: Stay, thou art so fair. And our...