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Top 15 E. T. A. Hoffmann Quotes (2025 Update)

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won’t help you.”

1. “Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won’t help you.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!”

2. “The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”

3. “Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Mozart’s music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.”

4. “Mozart’s music is the mysterious language of a distant spiritual kingdom, whose marvelous accents echo in our inner being and arouse a higher, intensive life.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.”

5. “As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.”

6. “It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.”

7. “It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.”

8. “Boys should not play with weapons more dangerous than they understand.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.”

9. “There is nothing more marvelous or madder than real life.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.”

10. “I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one’s will, beat one’s servants, and so forth.”

11. “It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one’s will, beat one’s servants, and so forth.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”

12. “Human beings ought not to draw in their antennae at every ungentle touch, like supersensitive insects.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”

13. “There are men from whom nature or some peculiar destiny has removed the cover beneath which we hide our own madness. They are likethin-skinned insects whose visible play of muscles seem to make them deformed, though in fact, everything soon turns to its normal shape again.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”

14. “Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless?”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.”

15. “How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.”

16. “It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.”

17. “Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.”

18. “Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

E. T. A. Hoffmann Quote: “Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.”

19. “Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.”

— E. T. A. Hoffmann

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