88 ordspråk av Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg föddes den July 1st 1742 och dog den 24 February 1799 - German writer
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 He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. |
| He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals. |
| I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. |
| I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state |
| I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius - in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede, not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won't count up to fourteen. |
| If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve |
| If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophy, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13 |
| If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime |
| If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. |
| If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. |
| In each of us there is a little of all of us |
| It is as though our languages were in state of confusion: when we want an idea they bring us a word, when we require a word they bring us a dash, and when we expected a dash there stands an obscenity. |
| It is not the force of his mind, but the force of wind that has carried that man so far. |
| It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal. |
| It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household |
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