Friedrich Hölderlin citations (16 citations)

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“What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful!”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion
Contexte: What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go.

“Before either of us knew it, we belonged to each other.”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion

“What has always made the state a hell on earth has been precisely that man has tried to make it heaven.

As translated by Michael Hamburger”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion
Original: (de) Immerhin hat das den Staat zur Hölle gemacht, daß ihn der Mensch zu seinem Himmel machen wollte.

“You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.”

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“But where the danger is, also grows the saving power.”

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“Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen ist alles. (We are nothing; what we search for is everything.)”

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“The earth with yellow pears
And overgrown with roses wild
Upon the pond is bent,
And swans divine,
With kisses drunk
You drop your heads
In the sublimely sobering water.
But where, with winter come, am I
To find, alas, the floweres, and where
The sunshine
And the shadow of the world?
Cold the walls stand
And the wordless, in the wind
The weathercocks are rattling.”

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"Halves of Life"

“What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel?”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion

“He who has thought most deeply loves what is most alive.”

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Wer das Tiefste gedacht, liebt das Lebendigste.
“Sokrates und Alcibiades”

“Wherein lies the danger, grows also the saving power.”

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Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst // das Rettende auch.
Patmos, 1803, Vers 3f. in: Gedichte von Friedrich Hölderlin, Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1873, S. 133
Original: Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst // das Rettende auch. - Patmos, 1803, Vers 3f. in: Gedichte von Friedrich Hölderlin, Druck und Verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1873, S. 133

“It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven.”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion
Contexte: It was not delight, not wonder that arose among us, it was the peace of heaven.
A thousand times have I said it to her and to myself: the most beautiful is also the most sacred. And such was everything in her. Like her singing, even so was her life.

“I call on Fate to give me back my soul.”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion

“Now we were standing close to the summit's rim, gazing out into the endless East.”

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Friedrich Hölderlin livre Hyperion

Hyperion

“Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the mania
Which insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.”

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"The Root of All Evil" as translated by Michael Hamburger

“You seek life, and a godly fire
Gushes and gleams for you out of the earth,
As, with shuddering long, you
Hurl yourself down to the flames of the Etna. So by a queen's wanton whim
Pearls were dissolved in wine- heed her not!
What folly, poet, to cast your riches
Into that bright and bubbling cup! Yet still are you holy to me, as the might of the earth
That bore you away, audaciously perishing!
And I would follow the hero into the depths
Did love not hold me.”

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"Empedokles"

“We are nothing; what we search for is everything.”

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Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen, ist alles.
Fragment von Hyperion, aus: Neue Thalia, Vierter Band, Hrsg. Friedrich Schiller, Georg Joachim Göschen, Leipzig 1793, S. 220
Original: Wir sind nichts; was wir suchen, ist alles. - Fragment von Hyperion, aus: Neue Thalia, Vierter Band, Hrsg. Friedrich Schiller, Georg Joachim Göschen, Leipzig 1793, S. 220