To me, the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe, comfortable, middle-of-the road policy. Above all, our language is 'middle-class' in the middle of our road. To drive it to one side or the other or even off the road, is the noblest task of the future.

Christian Morgenstern

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Home is not where you live but where they understand you. by Christian Morgenstern

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Christian Morgenstern

wisdom home travel

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Christian Morgenstern

want children art

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the L... by Christian Morgenstern

Woe to humanity, should only a single animal have a seat in the Last Judgement.

Christian Morgenstern

judgement humanity animal

In every work of art, the artist himself is present. by Christian Morgenstern

In every work of art, the artist himself is present.

Christian Morgenstern

works-of-art artist art

There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.

Christian Morgenstern

hundred first-time firsts

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

Christian Morgenstern

religious sea giving

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Christian Morgenstern

carpe-diem animal men

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth. by Christian Morgenstern

Enthusiasm is the most beautiful word on earth.

Christian Morgenstern

earth enthusiasm beautiful

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood. by Christian Morgenstern

Home isn't where our house is, but wherever we are understood.

Christian Morgenstern

understood house home

In every man there is a hidden child which is called the urge to create and he prefers as play things and serious things not the miniature ships, recreated in the minutest detail, but the walnutshell with a bird feather as mast and sail and a pebble as the captain. He also wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer. For this "child in man" is the immortal creator within him.

Christian Morgenstern

fun children art

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view o... by Christian Morgenstern

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Christian Morgenstern

humor views life

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother. by Christian Morgenstern

The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.

Christian Morgenstern

christian mother children

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show. by Christian Morgenstern

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

Christian Morgenstern

please artist shows

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

Christian Morgenstern

constant criticism mean

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are un... by Christian Morgenstern

You are not at home where your residence are but where you are understood.

Christian Morgenstern

where-you-are understood home

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Christian Morgenstern

realizing language world

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and t... by Christian Morgenstern

Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.

Christian Morgenstern

initiative imagination chess

It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.

Christian Morgenstern

different world thinking

My method is to find a word with a gesture. by Christian Morgenstern

My method is to find a word with a gesture.

Christian Morgenstern

gestures method

If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.

Christian Morgenstern

enormous safe long