Christian Friedrich Hebbel Quotes

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Hate, Knowing, Ifs

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• It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Intelligence, World, Incredibles

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• 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.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Fall, Simple, Hair

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Truth, Lying, Honor

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Nature, People, Judging

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• What you can become you are already.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Inspirational

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Believe, Long, People

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• Religion is the highest vanity.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Vanity, Highest

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Logic, Language, Creation

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Play, Cards, Impossible

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Lying, Men, Mirrors

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Differences, Culture, Violence

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• In a good play, everyone is in the right.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Writing, Play, Fiction Writing

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

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Design, World, Substance

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• If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

  Christian Friedrich Hebbel

  Society, Would Be, Ifs

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