Quotes by Christian Morgenstern

“940Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”

“Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.”

“Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.”

“Home is not where you live but where they understand you.”

“There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.”

“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.”

“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 ...”

“There is a ghost That eats handkerchiefs It keeps you company On all your travels.”

“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...”

“None of you knows what creativity means. To paint a picture, to write a poem? No! To recast one’s whole age, to impose upon it the stamp of one’s will, to fill it with beauty, to overwhelm it, to o...”

“Weil, so schließt er messerscharfNicht sein kann, was nicht sein darf.”

“Allen KnechtschaffenenAn alle Himmel schreib ichs an, die diesen Ball umspannen:Nicht der Tyrann ist ein schimpflicher Mann,aber der Knecht des Tyrannen.”