Gotthold Ephraim Lessing quotes

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I, who ne'er Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing, And that for others. Borrowing's much the same As begging; just as lending upon usury Is much the same as thieving. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The worst of superstitions is to think One's own most bearable. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
For the will and not the gift makes the giver. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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)
Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What is a hero without love for mankind? View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Pearls mean tears. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Better counsel comes overnight. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Variant: Man - who is he? Too bad to be the work of God; Too good for the work of chance! View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is infinitely difficult to know when and where one should stop, and for all but one in thousands the goal of their thinking is the point at which they have become tired of thinking. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes. (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing)
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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! View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing