Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Christoph Martin Wieland

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German poet Christoph Martin Wieland.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Christoph Martin Wieland was a German poet and writer. He is best-remembered for having written the first Bildungsroman, as well as the epic Oberon, which formed the basis for Carl Maria von Weber's opera of the same name. His thought was representative of the cosmopolitanism of the German Enlightenment, exemplified in his remark: "Only a true cosmopolitan can be a good citizen."

German - Poet | September 5, 1733 - January 20, 1813

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Man blindly works the will of fate.

Christoph Martin Wieland

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Christoph Martin Wieland

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes.

Christoph Martin Wieland

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.

Christoph Martin Wieland

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.

Christoph Martin Wieland

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time.

Christoph Martin Wieland

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience. [Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt, Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.]

Christoph Martin Wieland

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Christoph Martin Wieland

To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

Christoph Martin Wieland