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Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Opportunity, Devil

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Suffering, Endurance, Enabling

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Long, Woe, Pleasure
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 600-02, Oberon, II, 52, 1922.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Illusion, Drag, Make Me Happy
"Close Relationships". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, transl. by Harry T. Reis and Caryl E. Rusbult, p. 321, 2004.

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Noble, Half, Way
"Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Song 5, st. 30, transl. by A. B. Faust, New York: F. S. Crofts, p. 326, 1940.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Reality, Men
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 311-13, Oberen, II. 19., 1922.

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christoph Martin Wieland
Fate, Men, Dens

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Christoph Martin Wieland
People, Stupidity, Sublime

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

Christoph Martin Wieland
Men, Experience, May

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Men, Skins, Neighbor

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Art, Believe, People
Christoph Martin Wieland (1861). “The republic of fools: being the history of the state and people of Abdera, in Thrace. Tr. [from Geschichte der Abderiten] by H. Christmas”, p.31

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Christoph Martin Wieland
Fate, Bitterness, Bitter
"Oberon". Book by Christoph Martin Wieland, Ch.V, p.60, 1780.

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