Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Quotes

"Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Devil, Hair)

"They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Shipwreck)

"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Friendship, Hatred)

"One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Drinks)

"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Being, Drinking)

"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
(Related: Eye)

"If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Reason, Sense)

"For the will and not the gift makes the giver."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Will)

"Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Truth)

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Thought, Heaven, Prayer)

"A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes."
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
(Related: Eyes, Man)

"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
(Related: Truth, Effort, Man, Worth)

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