Georg Büchner Quotes
1813–1837 Germany
Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813 – 19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner.
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Also known as: Georg Buchner
43 quotes
They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.
The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
The power of the people and the power of reason are one.
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie.
Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
I’ll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.
The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georg Büchner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.