Christian Morgenstern Quotes

• Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Wisdom, Travel, Home

  "No shame in living with parents" by Tim Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2009.

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• Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Judgement, Humanity

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• 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

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• There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Firsts, Hundred, First Time

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• In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Art, Artist, Works Of Art

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• Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Beautiful, Earth, Enthusiasm

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Carpe Diem, Men

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• 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

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• Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Home, House, Understood

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• Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Life, Humor, Views

  "The Hidden Souls of Words" by Mary Cox Garner, (p. 142), 2004.

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• A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Artist, Shows, Please

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• The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Christian, Mother, Children

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• Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Imagination, Chess, Initiative

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• For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Mean, Criticism, Constant

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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, Different, World

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• You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Home, Where You Are, Understood

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• 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

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• There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Travel, Ghost, Company

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• My method is to find a word with a gesture.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Gestures, Method

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• 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, Safe, Sides

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• A poet must have died as a man before he is worth anything as a poet.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Men, Poetry, Poet

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