Georg Büchner citations

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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.”

“There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.”

“How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?”

“There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.”

“We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.”

“They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same.”

“The sin is in our thoughts.”

“Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!”

“The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom.”

“Love is a peculiar thing.”

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it. ”

“Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”