Quotes by Gotthold Lessing

• For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
• Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
• They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
• The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
• One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
• Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
• 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!
• If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
• For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
• Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
• A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
• A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
• 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.
• He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.