Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

#1. Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#2. To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#3. Man blindly works the will of fate.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#4. For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#5. The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#6. It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#7. Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#8. The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#9. I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

#10. To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#11. Man blindly works the will of fate.
[Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

#12. An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Christoph Martin Wieland

#13. Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Christoph Martin Wieland