More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. We may use Lichtenberg's writings as the most wonderful dowsing rod: wherever he makes a joke, there a problem lies hidden.
  2. Lichtenberg digs deeper than anyone... He speaks from the subterranean depths. Only he who himself digs deep hears him.
  3. You must not allow your reading to dominate you but you should dominate your reading.
  4. Why are young widows in mourning so beautiful? (Look into it.)
  5. What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!
  6. 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…
  7. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.
  8. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg : Experimental Physics from the Spirit of Aphorism (PDF)

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