Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

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For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Beauty, Greatest, Lies

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Single, Thought, Perfect

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

Sense, Reason, Lose

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

Friendship, Hatred, Fruit

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Eyes, Heretic, Sees

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Everything, Lazy, Except

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

Truth, Forward, Effort

Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Truth, Alone, Absolute

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Makes, Gift, Giver

Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Single, Hair, Devil

One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Enough, Drink, Drinks

They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Lost, Glorious, Seeking

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

Long, Lost, Through

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Critic

Born: January 22, 1729

Died: February 15, 1781

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