Quote #165
We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.
More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- You must not allow your reading to dominate you but you should dominate your reading.
- He is not a household name. He is something rarer: a name savored by household names.
- Why are young widows in mourning so beautiful? (Look into it.)
- Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.
- What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
- We must not seek to abstract from the busts of the great Greeks and Romans rules for the visible form of genius as long as we cannot contra…
- We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.
- Those who never have time do least.