Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Age: 52 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 22
Died: 1781
Died: February 15
Critic
Dramaturge
Journalist
Librarian
Literary Critic
Lyricist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Theologian
Writer
Father of German Literature
Least
Nothing
Accidental
Evident
Clearly
Intention
Sun
More quotes by 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!
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Resist as much as thou wilt heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Borrowing is not much better than begging.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy without sorrow. O the folly of expecting lasting felicity in a vale of tears, or a paradise in a ruined world.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
As the stag which the huntsman has hit flies through bush and brake, over stock and stone, thereby exhausting his strength but not expelling the deadly bullet from his body so does experience show that they who have troubled consciences run from place to place, but carry with them wherever they go their dangerous wounds.
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
But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Pure truth is for God alone.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
