“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”
As quoted in Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), p. 639
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, né à Quedlimbourg le 2 juillet 1724 et mort à Hambourg le 14 mars 1803, est un poète élégiaque allemand, considéré comme l'un des précurseurs du courant littéraire du Sturm und Drang. Wikipedia
“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave.”
As quoted in Day's Collacon: an Encyclopaedia of Prose Quotations (1884), p. 639
The Messiah, VII. 460; as quoted in Beautiful thoughts from German and Spanish authors (1868) by C.T. Ramage, p. 240