Christian Friedrich Hebbel , was a German poet and dramatist.
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“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
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“Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses”
“I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.”
“What you can become you are already.”
“Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.”
“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights.”
“Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.”
“If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one”
“Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
“Religion is the highest vanity.”