15 Christian Morgenstern Quotes

Christian Morgenstern quotes

1. Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word in the world.

2. Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

3. Life is Nothingness's search for Something.

1. The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

2. You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

3. If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

4. It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

5. There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

6. To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

7. Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

8. There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

9. A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

10. Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

11. In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

12. If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.