Christian Friedrich Hebbel Quotes

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.

What you can become you are already.

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people’s excuses.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

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.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

In a good play, everyone is in the right.

With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.

Religion is the highest vanity.

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.