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„Толкование снов само похоже на сновидение.“

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Готхольд Эфраим Лессинг книга Эмилия Галотти

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„Разговаривая, редко выказывают качества, которыми обладают, скорее выдают те, которых недостает.“

„Руины одного нужны вечной живой природе для жизни другого!“

„Суеверия, с которыми мы выросли, не теряют своей власти над нами даже тогда, когда мы познали их. Не все те свободны, кто смеется над своими цепями.“

„Ничтожна та любовь, что не страшится навлечь презрение на любимую.“

„Судьба подчас чересчур уж сильно замахивается, когда хочет легонько стукнуть нас. Казалось, она вот-вот нас раздавит, а на самом-то деле она всего лишь комара у нас на лбу прихлопнула.“

„Скорее смех, нежели печаль, делает нас рассудительными.“

„Истинная и всеобщая польза комедии заключается в развитии нашей способности легко и быстро подмечать смешное под каким бы то ни было покровом страсти или моды, равно как и под морщинами торжественной серьезности.“

„Не важно, как мы пишем, но очень важно, что мы пишем.“

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

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“Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud.”

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

Anti-Goeze (1778), as quoted in God Is Not Great (2007), by Christopher Hitchens , Ch. 19
Контексте: The true value of a 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 not possession of the Truth, but rather the pursuit of Truth by which he extends his powers and in which his ever-growing perfectibility is to be found. Possession makes one passive, indolent, and proud. If God were to hold all Truth concealed in his right hand, and in his left only the steady and diligent drive for Truth, albeit with the proviso that I would always and forever err in the process, and offer me the choice, I would with all humility take the left hand, and say: Father, I will take this one—the pure Truth is for You alone.

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.”

“Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.”

Misattributed

“If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.”

“Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.”

“What is a hero without love for mankind?”

As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 499

“To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.”

Was ist ein Held ohne Menschenliebe? Philotas http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8phts10.txt (1759), Act 1, Scene 7

“Man, whence is he?
Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.”

Und ein Vergnügen erwarten, ist auch ein Vergnügen. Minna von Barnhelm https://books.google.it/books?id=3XIHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA84#v=onepage&q&f=false (1763), , Act IV, scene VI

“I, who ne'er
Went for myself a begging, go a borrowing,
And that for others. Borrowing's much the same
As begging; just as lending upon usury
Is much the same as thieving.”

Der Mensch, wo ist er her?
Zu schlecht für einen Gott, zu gut fürs Ungefähr.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61
Вариант: Man — who is he? Too bad to be the work of God; Too good for the work of chance!

“The worst of superstitions is to think
One's own most bearable.”

Nathan the Wise http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt (1779), Act II, scene II

“It is infinitely difficult to know when and where one should stop, and for all but one in thousands the goal of their thinking is the point at which they have become tired of thinking.”

Nathan the Wise (1779), Act IV, scene II http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/natws10.txt Variant translation: The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.”

Es ist unendlich schwer, zu wissen, wenn und wo man bleiben soll, und Tausenden für einen ist das Ziel ihres Nachdenkens die Stelle, wo sie des Nachdenkens müde geworden.
Letter to Moses Mendelssohn, January 9, 1771

“Better counsel comes overnight.”

Denn zu einem großen Manne gehört beides: Kleinigkeiten als Kleinigkeiten, und wichtige Dinge als wichtige Dinge zu behandeln. Hamburgische Dramaturgie http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10055/10055-8.txt (1767 - 1769), Vierunddreißigstes Stück Den 25. August 1767

“Precisely the way on which the species reaches its perfection, every individual human being (one earlier, one later) must have traversed, too.”

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing книга Эмилия Галотти

Besserer Rat kommt über Nacht.
Emilia Galotti (1772), Act IV, scene III

Eben die Bahn, aus welcher das Geschlecht zu seiner Vollkommenheit gelangt, muß jeder einzelne Mensch (der früher, der später) erst durchlaufen haben.
The Education of Mankind, § 93

“Pearls mean tears.”

“Lessing directs here, for the modern English author, see Doris Lessing.”

Perlen bedeuten Tränen. Emilia Galotti http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/7mlgl10.txt (1772), Act II, scene VIII