Top 8 Michelstaedter Quotes

#1. It is not every man that can afford to go to Corinth.

Horace

#2. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. Man 'knows', which is why he is always two : his life and his knowing.

Carlo Michelstaedter

#4. Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Michael Shermer

#5. Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove ... ' and 'there's too much legislation already ... '. In no case has this line of reasoning ever been sustained.

Tim Field

#6. Do you hear the people sing? Singing a song of angry men

Victor Hugo

#7. Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points.

Theodore Dreiser

#8. A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.

Gian Carlo Menotti

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