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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the german critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on topics like lost, eyes, drink

  • He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on things
    16
  • If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on reason
    4
  • For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on gift
    4
  • Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on catch
    3
  • A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on conformity
    3
  • For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on beauty
    2
  • It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on believes
    1
  • Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on arm
    1
  • One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on drink
    0
  • The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on borne
    0
  • The superstition in which we grew up,Though we may recognize it, does not loseIts power over us--Not all are freeWho make mock of their chains.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on superstition
    0
  • They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.

    — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on glorious
    0
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