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