Christian Friedrich Hebbel Quotes

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#4. What you can become you are already.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#6. In a good play, everyone is in the right.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#9. Religion is the highest vanity.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#11. If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

#12. 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

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

Christian Friedrich Hebbel