Caspar David Friedrich Quote

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.


In: Joseph Koerner, whose modern classic Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape; Joseph Koerner, p. 66; as quoted in the article 'Caspar David Friedrich's Medieval Burials', Karl Whittington -


You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.

You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.