What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it.

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Religion is the highest vanity.

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads unti…

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses.

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

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

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

- Christian Friedrich Hebbel