Hugo von Hofmannsthal Quotes

• Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Life, Reality, Political

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• First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Life, Wise, Wisdom

  "Andreas".

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• Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

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  Self, Enchantment, Found

  Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press

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• Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Depth, Surface

  Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press

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• Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Language, Exhausted

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• To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Maturity, Separation, Mature

  Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (2008). “The Whole Difference: Selected Writings of Hugo von Hofmannsthal”, p.148, Princeton University Press

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• Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Littles, Spots, Knows

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”

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• We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Imagine, Fewer, Knows

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• Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

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  Lying, Reality, Enchantment

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• How we feel is how we want to be heard.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Wise, Wisdom, Want

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• The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

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  Creative, Reign, Dangerous

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• Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Music, Voice, Singing

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1952). “Selected prose”

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• The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

  Hugo von Hofmannsthal

  Reality, Europe, Revolution

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