Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
Georg Trakl
Related
We?re dreaming of the day Sam opens his eyes.
EMILY RINEY An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO THE ELDER An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
CATO ELDER Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
JOHN MILTON Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
AMY LOWELL The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
GEORG TRAKL Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
GEORG TRAKL I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
GEORG TRAKL The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
GEORG TRAKL Despair, night in the grieving senses.
GEORG TRAKL Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
GEORG TRAKL Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing wat...
GEORG TRAKL Frost and smoke. A white shirt of stars burns your worn-out shoulders, and God's vultures tear at yo...
GEORG TRAKL For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
GEORG TRAKL When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
GEORG TRAKL At the Moor
Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillne...
GEORG TRAKL The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.
GEORG TRAKL A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
GEORG TRAKL God opens the door so that we can establish His kingdom on earth
SUNDAY ADELAJA He can’t take his eyes off the stars, but I can’t take mine off his face. I can see the stars re...
AMIE KAUFMAN For a small moment, I fix my eyes on his, telling him silently everything that I'll never say to him...
MARIE LU And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised
God and his works.
JOHN MILTON The orange of the golden carp appeared at the edge of the pond. . . . We watched in silence at the b...
RUDOLFO ANAYA The stars were glittering in the heaven's dusk meadows,
Far west, among those flowers of the shado...
VICTOR HUGO It opens up your eyes to a lot of things.
KISSES MARTINEZ Then the Skopamish showed up. Their chests heaving, rotting eyes like dull raisins in their skulls. ...
TAMARA ROSE BLODGETT Sometimes playing stupid opens your eyes to the truth.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Seeing with open eyes, opens up minds.
Thinking with open minds, opens up hearts.
Living with open h...
MARK G LYNCH If a person closes his eyes to God’s plan, God will close His eyes to his fate
SUNDAY ADELAJA Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN When my mind closes his eyes I try to forgive and forget; but whenever it opens at least one of his ...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES Peter opens his eyes and they are tearless and fierce, revealing a glimpse of his true self. Pure an...
DAN KROKOS Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with th...
EDWARD T. BABINSKI God brings us through many test to place us in the place of fulfilling His will
SUNDAY ADELAJA Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
WADADA LEO SMITH Everyone is asleep. They've all been asleep for years. You seemed ... awake.' Alex is whispering now...
LAUREN OLIVER Gratitude opens your eyes to the endless opportunities that expectation has hidden.
STEVE MARABOLI His house has become a mecca for all the other actors. He opens the door for everyone to come over o...
DAMON LINDELOF The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms,
And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,
To h...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Fellowship with people opens us up with God
SUNDAY ADELAJA For the child of God, death is when the earth recedes and heaven opens up.
UNKNOWN I will see you again,’ Hades promised. ‘I will prepare a room for you at the palace in case you ...
RICK RIORDAN One cop was reaching for his gun. I had to break open one of the skulls to prove that these were fak...
TODD MASTERS So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and ...
PHILIP PULLMAN If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
THOMAS GRAY When God closes a door He opens a window.
UNKNOWN Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.
SWAMI RAMDAS He looked at me then, his deep golden eyes meeting mine, and I saw a heat in them that I felt reflec...
AMANDA HOCKING Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise.
THOMAS DEKKER Before God opens His windows in heaven for you, you will need to dedicate your business, your tithes...
SUNDAY ADELAJA God looks at your heart, way before your mouth opens.
JOHN ALEXANDER TRISTRAM Some revelations have been reserved for the last days for God to accomplish His original plan.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
THOMAS GRAY The boy's eyes went to him, and a shock passed through Magnus. They were not Will's eyes, the eyes M...
CASSANDRA CLARE It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry ...
CHARLES DICKENS How is Angeline?” asked Dimitri. “Is she improving?” Eddie and I exchanged glances. So much fo...
RICHELLE MEAD Eddie was intensely dedicated too. Adrian sometimes called him mini-Dimitri
RICHELLE MEAD Never thought I’d see the day when you’d throw your arms around a vam - someone like me
RICHELLE MEAD Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn’t I be locked away ...
RICHELLE MEAD My libido was like a Golden Retriever puppy, ready to jump all over him and lick his face.
Down...
SARINA BOWEN It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.
GRANT MORRISON ... the God who controls the wheeling galaxies and who spoke before the foundation of the world must...
E. ELLIOT The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
DAVID FOSTER WALLACE There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT A great director gives life to a work of art- gives it a heartbeat… a pulse… opens its eyes to t...
A.D. POSEY In the hazy afternoon light through the windows he looked beautiful and dissolute, shirt open at the...
TANA FRENCH Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God...
JOHN BUCHAN Every night when I close my eyes, I ask God to watch over her, keep her safe.
ANGELA BRYANT Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 We preach Jesus Christ ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Chaol," he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her ...
SARAH J. MAAS That book in many’s eyes doth share the gloryThat in gold clasps locks in the golden story.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
EUGENE IONESCO Most adults don't know what we do here - let alone kids. It really opens their eyes, and it teaches ...
CHERYL POWERS The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immer...
CRISS JAMI One who would really like to know himself would have to be a restless, fanatical collector of disapp...
PASCAL MERCIER Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, prepar...
IRVING PENN Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS Student food." His eyes went to the tomato on the sill. "Whatever's in the refrigerator over pasta.
KIM HARRISON God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an i...
R.C. SPROUL God requires his servants to walk in the light, and not cover their eyes that they may not discern t...
ELLEN G. WHITE His green-flecked brown eyes twinkle, and we laugh together, easy and light. He opens the door for m...
ALECIA WHITAKER It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper, said Mr...
CHARLES DICKENS Growing up watching friends grow, from friends to lovers. Opens the eyes of many every time. Proving...
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always anot...
MARGUERITE DE ANGELI I rolled my eyes, trying to keep my eyes off his body, just the sight of his abs or arms was enough ...
HOLLY HOOD God blessed me with some great, unique features-some beautiful, in my eyes, and some not so beautifu...
EVA LONGORIA Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gif...
JANE GREY God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute powe...
GERRIT SMITH Hell is paved with infants' skulls.
RICHARD BAXTER Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Hell is paved with priests' skulls
SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM 'God' is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and 'Deity' is the dominion ...
ISAAC NEWTON Did God ever cry over his lost angel, I wonder?
LIBBA BRAY To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in He...
ARTHUR W. PINK He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER It opens your eyes in this town, it's amazing. It's taught me who I don't want to be.
RENEE ZELLWEGER
More Georg Trakl
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
GEORG TRAKL Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
GEORG TRAKL I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
GEORG TRAKL The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
GEORG TRAKL Despair, night in the grieving senses.
GEORG TRAKL Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
GEORG TRAKL Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing wat...
GEORG TRAKL Frost and smoke. A white shirt of stars burns your worn-out shoulders, and God's vultures tear at yo...
GEORG TRAKL For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
GEORG TRAKL When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
GEORG TRAKL At the Moor
Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillne...
GEORG TRAKL The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.
GEORG TRAKL A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
GEORG TRAKL Silver, the head of the unborn sank down.
GRORG TRAKL Yes always, there is the self, black and near.
GRORG TRAKL In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace b...
GEORG SIMMEL In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
GEORG CANTOR I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their port...
GEORG BASELITZ I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I w...
GEORG SOLTI Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.
GEORG GRODDECK One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself...
GEORG GRODDECK We've practiced loving long enough,
Let's come at last to hate.
[Ger., Wir haben lang genug ge...
GEORG HERWEGH Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
GEORG WILHELM For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities an...
GEORG SIMMEL We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces.
GEORG BUCHNER Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
GEORG BRANDES Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secre...
GEORG SIMMEL The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
GEORG BRANDES The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.
GEORG SOLTI The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy...
GEORG SIMMEL The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
GEORG BUCHNER Death is like an arrow that is already in flight, and your life lasts only until it reaches you.
GEORG HERMES The earliest phase of social formations found in historical as well as in contemporary social struct...
GEORG SIMMEL He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
GEORG BRANDES It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
GEORG BRANDES For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the...
GEORG SIMMEL I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held conce...
GEORG CANTOR But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of...
GEORG BRANDES It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see thei...
GEORG HEGEL Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.
GEORG HEGEL We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been
accomplished without enthusia...
GEORG HEGEL Death comes to all But great achievements build a monument Which shall endure until the sun grows co...
GEORG FABRICIUS Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate con...
GEORG SIMMEL During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsb...
GEORG SOLTI The transfinite numbers are in a certain sense themselves new irrationalities and in fact in my opin...
GEORG CANTOR A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.
GEORG CANTOR The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite...
GEORG CANTOR What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finit...
GEORG CANTOR The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, i...
GEORG CANTOR It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: "Is it true...
GEORG HEGEL The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity
GEORG BRANDES I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more be...
GEORG BASELITZ Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersona...
GEORG SIMMEL Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
GEORG BUCHNER Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
GEORG BUCHNER A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had ...
GEORG BRANDES I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodne...
GEORG BRANDES The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
GEORG BUCHNER The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams ...
GEORG SIMMEL Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of al...
GEORG SIMMEL Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I ...
GEORG SOLTI But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunte...
GEORG SOLTI The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our l...
GEORG BUCHNER The soul passeth from form to form; and the mansions of her pilgrimage are manifold.
GEORG HERMES In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require a...
GEORG SIMMEL The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of...
GEORG SIMMEL The metropolis has always been the seat of the money economy.
GEORG SIMMEL The academy gave me a grounding in discipline and hard work that has sustained me throughout my life...
GEORG SOLTI It's not very much, it's rather puny. They definitely need some more.
GEORG PETERSEN I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.
GEORG RAUCH In mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.
GEORG CANTOR Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite alep...
GEORG CANTOR The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
GEORG CANTOR [What a welcome relief this must have been to the chronically depressed Cantor! As John D. Barrow wr...
GEORG CANTOR One can say unconditionally: the transfinite numbers stand or fall with the finite irrational number...
GEORG CANTOR I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely...
GEORG SOLTI We are concerned that the virus may still circulate after this campaign,
GEORG PETERSEN I have one more title to defend. Every year there is a wok sliding championship. I am a two-time wor...
GEORG HACKL I'm very focused on the race. I have time after the race to think about what it means to be done.
GEORG HACKL We have four full-time people who investigate these. That's not enough.
GEORG GREVE Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, a...
GEORG SIMMEL Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood th...
GEORG BUCHNER Creation has become so broad, there’s no emptiness. Everything swarms and seethes. The void has de...
GEORG BüCHNER I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
GEORG BRANDES Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
GEORG HERMES I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and ...
GEORG BRANDES My beautiful proof lies all in ruins.
GEORG CANTOR Marie
- Franz … Yine de orospunun biriyim işte ben! Bıçaklayabilirim kendimi! Ah! Ne Düny...
GEORG BüCHNER MARIE [Alone, after apause.]
Whata bitch I am. I could stab myself. - Oh, what a world! Everyt...
GEORG BüCHNER started to tell his friends that he had not been the inventor of the ideas about infinity that he ha...
GEORG CANTOR The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of it...
GEORG SIMMEL Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
GEORG BUCHNER The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
GEORG BUCHNER I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparen...
GEORG BASELITZ The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear fro...
GEORG SIMMEL The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye ...
GEORG BUCHNER Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
GEORG BUCHNER The Revolution is like Saturn - it eats its own children
GEORG BUCHNER Kisses are the language of love.
GEORG KEIL I'm very happy. Now I have every color of medal.
GEORG HETTICH We flirted with a gold medal.
GEORG HETTICH I am very surprised. I still haven't realized fully what I've done.
GEORG HETTICH I never won a World Cup competition. I won jumping, but never won the whole competition. This mornin...
GEORG HETTICH I'm very surprised. After the last uphill, I realized I can win a medal. I am very happy.
GEORG HETTICH I did not win a medal but I have shown that I can still compete with these younger guys.
GEORG HACKL It's a race sport and that's always dangerous. But we have strict regulations and only the better dr...
GEORG HACKL I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.
GEORG HACKL These will be the last runs of my career, I'm very close to the end.
GEORG HACKL I'm too old to race further. I have exceeded the expiration date.
GEORG HACKL Only those who are behind in technology want that. But a lot of things that sound good in theory unf...
GEORG HACKL The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the ...
GEORG HACKL It makes me tremendously proud to qualify for a sixth Olympics.
GEORG HACKL We're fundamentally opposed to DRM. We think it's a dead end for society.
GEORG GREVE We want to make sure that Microsoft is forced to publish the communication specifications, and in a ...
GEORG GREVE It appears that the journalist at Reuters was somewhat confused in terms of separating speculation a...
GEORG GREVE There could be something that addresses this if we can find a sensible way to put it.
GEORG GREVE explicit statement of who truly holds political power.
GEORG GREVE Software patents are clearly a menace to society and innovation. We like this to be more explicit.
GEORG GREVE invite some people into so-called 'advisory committees' which will first help to determine the miles...
GEORG GREVE These are things that are being tossed around, but whether, how and in what form it will take place,...
GEORG GREVE We have to give the sad news that we have found another victim. Only one more person lies buried und...
GEORG GRABNER It would be irresponsible to let them press on.
GEORG GRABNER Specialists were brought in to examine the structure. They decided it would be irresponsible to cont...
GEORG GRABNER It is clear that Premiere as a television group is harmed. We are not fighting with the same weaponr...
GEORG KOFLER It just doesn't make sense that the matches are shown in free TV directly after a live broadcast in ...
GEORG KOFLER Ahead of the 1974 World Cup, many households swapped their black-and-white TV sets for a color TV. W...
GEORG KOFLER Communicating on progress is critical for our participants as well as for the Global Compact itself....
GEORG KELL By joining the Global Compact, Coca-Cola has an opportunity to build on its already impressive work ...
GEORG KELL A man is well educated when he knows where to find what he doesnt know.
GEORG SIMMEL The problem with this country, as in many Asian countries is that a large portion of the chickens ar...
GEORG PETERSEN We need to prepare - every country - for an eventual massive influenza epidemic that puts perhaps up...
GEORG PETERSEN [The virus in the dead woman] seems like a virus that has gone directly from birds, ... reassuring f...
GEORG PETERSEN Definitely the whole international community is very much present,
GEORG PETERSEN It's not what we call extensive human-to-human transmission ... It doesn't mean mutation.
GEORG PETERSEN What we know is that from one clear case in Thailand and probably in other cases there has been clos...
GEORG PETERSEN It doesn't mean mutation,
GEORG PETERSEN In around 80 percent of cases (in Asia) so far there is obvious contact with sick birds. That means ...
GEORG PETERSEN With Champions TV we are establishing a new brand as a starting point for Premiere's free-to-air TV ...
GEORG KOFLER Premiere is solidly ... positioned for the future competition in the TV market.
GEORG KOFLER This was the first half. We're now about to start the second half.
GEORG KOFLER As there are six kinds of metals, so I have also shown with reliable experiments... that there are a...
GEORG BRANDT The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
GEORG BUCHNER One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can ...
GEORG BUCHNER My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.
GEORG SOLTI Woyzeck
- Burada olduğumuz için şanslıyız değil mi Andreas?
Andreas
- Bu yer la...
GEORG BüCHNER Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewe...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER Nothing exists except through language.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
HANS-GEORG GADAMER It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtai...
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rival...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG W. HEGEL Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical educatio...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at tim...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of c...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider eve...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN Men still have to be governed by deception.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misun...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG