Christian Morgenstern Quotes

#1. Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

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#2. 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.

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#3. If modern civilised man had to keep the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

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#4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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

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

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

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

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#14. The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

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#15. Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

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#16. My method is to find a word with a gesture.

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#17. A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

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

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#19. 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.

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#20. That which must not, can not be.

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

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#22. Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

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#23. It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

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