Hugo von Hofmannsthal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Life #Body #Able
Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Depth #Surface
Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Language #Exhausted
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Lying #Reality #Enchantment
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Maturity #Mature #Grows
Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Music #Voice #Singing
The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Reality #Europe #Revolution
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Creative #Reign #Dangerous
We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Imagine
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Self #Enchantment #Found
Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Littles #Spots
Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.
-- Hugo von Hofmannsthal

#Reality #Political #Literature

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