Quotes from Christian Friedrich Hebbel

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

What you can become you are already.

It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense.

Religion is the highest vanity.

One lie does not cost you one truth, but the truth.

That Man, who flees from truth, should have invented the mirror is the greatest of historical miracles.