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German poet and playwright (d. 1864), Birth: 18-3-1813, Death: 13-12-1863
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It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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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.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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What you can become you are already.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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With someone who holds nothing but trumps, it is impossible to play cards.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Quote Topics by Christian Friedrich Hebbel: People Play World Lying Ifs Hair Culture Simple Differences Truth Men Judging Vanity Incredibles Long Would Be Creation Hate Design Language Writing Fall Violence Honor Mirrors Highest Nature Cards Inspirational Impossible
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In a good play, everyone is in the right.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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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.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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Religion is the highest vanity.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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If anything were FULLY explained, everything would be explained.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel