Georg Buchner Quotes
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Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.
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Dying people often become childish.
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I'll know how to die with courage; that is easier than living.
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And for tired eyes every light is too bright, and for tired lips every breath too heavy, and for tired ears every word too much.
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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
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The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny
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Revolution calls my name. I will soon dwell in nothingness, and my name will be in the Pantheon of history.
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The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.
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The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.
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The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.
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Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.
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Death is the most blessed dream.
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We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.
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One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
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The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.
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There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
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Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.
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Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave.
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Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.
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A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.
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Only one thing abides: an infinite beauty that passes from form to form, eternally changed and revealed afresh.
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Man is an abyss, and I turn giddy when I look down into it.
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How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
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Supreme power rests in the will of all or of the majority.
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Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
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The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday.
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The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.
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That is a long word: forever!
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The state is therefore everyone; the rules within the state are laws which safeguard the welfare of all and which must originate from the welfare of all.
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The sin is in our thoughts.
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