Quotes by Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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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If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.
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If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.
With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
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With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
It’s incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
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It’s incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
Religion is the highest vanity.
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Religion is the highest vanity.
Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
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Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
In a good play, everyone is in the right.
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In a good play, everyone is in the right.
That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
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That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
What you can become you are already.
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What you can become you are already.
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