Christian Morgenstern famous quotes

03-28-2025

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Travel #Home #Where You Live
The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Art #Children #Want
Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Religious #Sea #Giving
Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Animal #Judgement #Humanity
Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#World #Language #Realizing
To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Class #Tasks #Safe
My method is to find a word with a gesture.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Gestures #Method
If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Long #Safe #Enormous
A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Men #Poetry #Poet
For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Mean #Criticism #Constant
A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Artist #Shows #Please
In every work of art, the artist himself is present.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Art #Artist #Works Of Art
There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Travel #Ghost #Company
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Thinking #Pages #Different
Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Beautiful #Earth #Enthusiasm
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Christian #Mother #Children
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Imagination #Chess #Initiative
Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Home #House #Understood
In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Art #Children #Fun
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Animal #Carpe Diem #Men
Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.
-- Christian Morgenstern

#Life #Humor #Views

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