Christoph Martin Wieland quotes

Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet, writer, and translator, known as an important figure of the Enlightenment. His works contributed significantly to the development of German literature and culture. He influenced many contemporaries and later writers with his wit, imagination, and advocacy for tolerance. Here are 9 of his quotes:

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

Christoph Martin Wieland

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Christoph Martin Wieland

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

Christoph Martin Wieland

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Christoph Martin Wieland

I said Philosophy might the rather maintain its place, as healing art for the soul, because then, the well would know that they had nothing to do with it. But as all arts love to make themselves more important than they are, so this art too has found means to impose itself upon all the world as indispensable. Like its sister art, which ministers to the body, it will not allow any one to be entirely well.

Christoph Martin Wieland

And less is often more, as Lessing's Prince teaches us.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Saddle the Hippogriffs, ye Muses nine, And straight we'll ride to the land of old Romance.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Christoph Martin Wieland