More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and th…
  2. Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
  3. What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and wh…
  4. Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth wa…
  5. We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble…
  6. The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real th…
  7. If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.
  8. If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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