4 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Courage

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on courage

16. 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 of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.

38. Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

52. If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

139. Not only did he not believe in ghosts, he wasn't even afraid of them.