Christian Friedrich Hebbel quotes:
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What you can become you are already.
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That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
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It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
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Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
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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.
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Religion is the highest vanity.
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Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
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If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
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One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
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Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
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In a good play, everyone is in the right.
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What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
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With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
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If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.
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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.