The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Pleasures, riches, honor and joy are sure to have care, disgrace, adversity and affliction in their train. There is no pleasure without pain, no joy …

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The true value of man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth. It is …

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The search for truth is more precious than its possession.

- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing