Georg Buchner Quotes

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• We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us.

  Georg Buchner

  Revolution, Made

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act II, 1835.

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• The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.

  Georg Buchner

  Sunday, Long, Wealthy

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

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• Murder begins where self-defense ends.

  Georg Buchner

  Self, Defense, Murder

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.

  Georg Buchner

  Unique, Order, Essence

  "Lenz". Book by Georg Buchner, 1835.

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• Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.

  Georg Buchner

  Revolution, Graves, Halfway

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.

  Georg Buchner

  Aristocracy, Breaths

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

  Georg Buchner

  Power, People, Reason

  Georg Buchner, Howard Brenton (2013). “Danton's Death”, p.38, A&C Black

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• The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

  Georg Buchner

  Stars, Pain, Eye

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.

  Georg Buchner

  Men, Looks, Abyss

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• The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

  Georg Buchner

  World, Chaos, Born

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act IV, 1835.

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• The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

  Georg Buchner

  Humanity, Century, Stride

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

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• Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!

  Georg Buchner

  War, Palaces, Shack

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

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• We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

  Georg Buchner

  Ends, Stage, Earnest

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1835.

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• Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

  Georg Buchner

  Government, People, Body

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.

  Georg Buchner

  Eye, Tired, Light

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act II, 1838.

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• Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.

  Georg Buchner

  Power, Majority, Supreme Power

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

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• Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

  Georg Buchner

  Children, Saturn, Revolution

  Danton's Death act 1, sc. 5 (1835) See Vergniaud 1

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• Death is the most blessed dream.

  Georg Buchner

  Sympathy, Dream, Blessed

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Büchner, Act II, 1838.

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• People like us are unhappy in this world and in the next, I guess if we made it to heaven, we'd have to help make it thunder.

  Georg Buchner

  People, Heaven, Unhappy

  "Woyzeck". Stage play by Georg Buchner (Scene VI), 1879.

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• You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.

  Georg Buchner

  Falling In Love, Lying, Fall

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

  Georg Buchner

  Men, Good Man, Walks

  "Woyzeck". Play by Georg Büchner, Scene X, 1879.

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• Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.

  Georg Buchner

  Infinite Beauty, Form, Changed

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• I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.

  Georg Buchner

  Easier, Know How, Knows

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Büchner, Act II, 1835.

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• That is a long word: forever!

  Georg Buchner

  Long, Forever, Long Words

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1838.

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• Love is a peculiar thing.

  Georg Buchner

  Love Is, Peculiar

  "Leonce and Lena". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1838.

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