Christian Friedrich Hebbel Quotes & Sayings

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Religion is the highest vanity. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

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

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

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

In a good play, everyone is in the right. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

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

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

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

What you can become you are already. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel