Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: His Life and His WorksLongmans, Green, and Company, 1878 - 446 páginas |
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Página 404 - The highest moral purpose aimed at in the highest species of the drama, is the teaching the human heart, through its sympathies and antipathies, the knowledge of itself; in proportion to the possession of which knowledge, every human being is wise, just, sincere, tolerant and kind.
Página 405 - That which is called the Christian Religion existed among the Ancients, and never did not exist, from the beginning of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at which time the true religion, which already existed, began to be called Christianity.
Página 87 - I have only one piece of mercy to beg of you ; do not laugh at my gravity, but permit me to wear the beard of a philosopher, till I pull it off, and make a jest of it myself.
Página 427 - Why should I not come back as often as I am capable of acquiring fresh knowledge, fresh expertness? Do I bring away so much from once, that there is nothing to repay the trouble of coming back ? 99 Is this a reason against it?
Página 91 - If princes, etc., were alone liable to misfortunes arising from vice or weakness in themselves or others, there would be good reason for confining the characters in tragedy to those of superior rank; but, since the contrary is evident, nothing can be more reasonable than to proportion the remedy to the disease.
Página 361 - If God held all truth in his right hand and in his left the everlasting striving after truth...
Página 64 - Say, then, that he was wise as brave ; As wise in thought as bold in deed : For in the principles of things He sought his moral creed. Said generous Rob, " What need of Books ? Burn all the Statutes and their shelves : They stir us up against our Kind ; And worse, against Ourselves.
Página 195 - What form is best for poems? Let me think Of forms less, and the external. Trust the spirit, As sovran nature does, to make the form; For otherwise we only imprison spirit And not embody. Inward evermore To outward, — so in life, and so in art, Which still is life.
Página 361 - If God held all truth in His right hand, and in His left the ever-living desire for truth...
Página 368 - Religion is not true because the Evangelists and Apostles taught it, but they taught it because it is true.