What education is to the individual man, revelation is to the human race. Education is revelation coming to the individual man, and revelation is education that has come, and is still coming to the human race. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
