Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Austrian novelist Hugo von Hofmannsthal.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Austrian - Novelist | February 1, 1874 - July 15, 1929

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First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Depth must be hidden. Where? On the surface.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Knowledge is little; to know the right context is much; to know the right spot is everything.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The process of which I am speaking is nothing less than a conservative revolution on such a scale as the history of Europe has never known. Its object is form, a new German reality, in which the whole nation will share.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

How we feel is how we want to be heard.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Words performed through music can express what language alone had exhausted

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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