Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Creativity
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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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.