5 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Creativity

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on creativity

29. What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?

41. As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

42. The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

125. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

130. I have scattered seeds of ideas on almost every page which, if they fall on the right soil, may grow into chapters and even whole dissertations.