Quotes About Lessing

Lessing's ditch, which argues for a canyon between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith

Pagan? Ah,that is a joyous word for the aridity of Godless modern man!

The new religion without any secrets is philosophy. The old religion, said Aristotle, is necessary only for the uneducated; Confucius, Buddha, Voltaire and Lessing were of the same opinion.

Weil der Pöbel noch sein Gefühlt hat, das bei Vornehmern durch tausend unnatürliche Vorstellungen verderbt und geschwächt wird.

The fermenta cognitionis which Lessing scattered into the world were not intended to communicate conclusions, but to stimulate others to independent thought, and this for no other purpose than to bring about a discourse between thinkers.

I think it was Lessing who once said, "There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose." An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Creo que fue Lessing quien afirmó: «Hay cosas que pueden hacerte perder la razón, a no ser que no tengas ninguna razón que perder». En una situación anormal, una reacción anormal constituye una conducta normal.

Hier kömmt eine Nahrung, bei der man eher Grillen machen kann. Der liebe melancholische Kaffee!

But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to Mendelssohn.]

Lessing has said that Collectivism is nothing less than 'the cloak of tyranny'.