"Why should not every individual man have existed……" — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
"Why should not every individual man have existed more than once upon this world? Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge? Is this hypothesis so laughable merely because it is the oldest? Because the human understanding, before the sophistries of the schools had dissipated and debilitated it, lighted upon it at once?"
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we…
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Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
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He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
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The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
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Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
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When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
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A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes
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Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm…
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The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship
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It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he…
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Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
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It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
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