Ephraim Quotes
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They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I did not choose my family. Fate chose me.
— Joseph Ephraim
To look forward to pleasure is also a pleasure.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The gift of prayer is not always at our command.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What education is to the individual, revelation is to the whole human race.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A blush is the sign which Nature hangs out to show where chastity and honor dwell.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The searcher's eye Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Yesterday I lived, today I suffer, tomorrow I die; but I still think fondly, today and tomorrow, of yesterday.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The lion is ashamed, it's true, when he hunts with the fox.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nature intended that woman should be her masterpiece.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
To borrow scarce is better than to beg; As lending, lending upon interest, Scarce better is than stealing.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
How can such deep-imprinted images sleep in us at times, till a word, a sound, awake them?
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
My track record is that I have always sought to work with warmth and in a constructive way with the leaders of other components of the Jewish faith.
— Ephraim Mirvis
He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Smile. Be open and welcoming.
— Ephraim Buchwald
Absolute truth belongs to Thee alone.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Joy makes us giddy, dizzy.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Any source of truth or wisdom is a welcome one.
— Matia Ben Ephraim
Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The rabbis will find in me personally someone who cares about their future and welfare.
— Ephraim Mirvis
Pure truth is for God alone.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Who cannot resolve upon a moment's notice To live his own life, he forever lives A slave to others.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The superstition in which we were brought up never loses its power over us, even after we understand it.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Nothing under the sun is ever accidental.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
But how many moments are already past!Ah! who thinks of those that are past? — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.
— Ephraim Mirvis
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The real beggar is indeed the true and only king.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The superstition in which we grew up, Though we may recognize it, does not lose Its power over us.-Not all are free Who make mock of their chains.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The true vagrant is the only king above all comparison.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Let each man say what he deems truth, and let truth itself be commended unto God.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
We moderns do not believe in demigods, but our smallest hero we expect to feel and act as a demigod.
— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing