Quote #109
The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- First we have to believe, and then we believe.
- There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
- So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a …
- There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians…
- One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely pro…
- If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
- It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius …
- The 'second sight' possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift …