Christian Friedrich Hebbel famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Intelligence #World #Incredibles
If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Hate #Knowing
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Logic #Language #Creation
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Lying #Men #Mirrors
With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Play #Cards #Impossible
What you can become you are already.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Inspirational
Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Design #Substance #World
Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#People #Judging #Want
There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Fall #Simple #Hair
In a good play, everyone is in the right.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Writing #Play
One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Lying #Honor #Doe
Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Believe #Long #People
If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.
-- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#Society #Would Be

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