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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes
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Type: Critic Quotes Category: German Critic Quotes Date of Birth: January 22, 1729 Date of Death: February 15, 1781 Nationality: German Find on Amazon: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Related Authors: William Hazlitt Charles Lamb Leslie Fiedler Paul Weyrich Roger Ebert Irving Babbitt Georg Brandes Steven Cojocaru |
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing A single thankful thought towards heaven is the most perfect of all prayers. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing For the will and not the gift makes the giver. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost! Gotthold Ephraim Lessing |
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