Christoph Martin Wieland Quotes

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“Man blindly works the will of fate.”

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“The compulsion of fate is bitter.”

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.”

— Christoph Martin Wieland

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.”

— Christoph Martin Wieland

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“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

“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

“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

“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