Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
German Poet and Dramatist
"Remember: one lie does not cost you one truth but the truth."
"In a work of art the intellect asks questions; it does not answer them."
"What a vast difference there is between the barbarism that precedes culture and the barbarism that follows it."
"Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so."
"The motive for a deed usually changes during its performance: at least, after the deed has been done, it seems quite different."