Quote #135
Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be retaught when the students become teachers.
More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Men still have to be governed by deception.
- My head lies at least a foot closer to my heart than is the case with other men: that is why I am so reasonable.
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- My inquiries into physics could perhaps be given the title: legacies. For people do also bequeath trifles, after all.
- If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
- Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.
- If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
- Not only did he not believe in ghosts, he wasn't even afraid of them.