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

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
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

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing