Adalbert Stifter

Quotes

• “Don't the overwhelming majority believe that mankind is the crowning achievement of Creation, that man is better than ev...”
• “Among the books there were also some containing bombast. They didn't try to portray Nature as it is within and outside o...”
• “My heart was full and uplifted; it seemed that in my soul the question arose whether such things as Art, literature, sci...”
• “Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it - and we only need to give it some prope...”
• “Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his loc...”
• “In the old pieces of furniture almost as in the old paintings, dwells the charm of the past, of the faded which becomes ...”