4 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Culture

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on culture

31. There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

51. If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

53. The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

121. As nations improve, so do their gods.