5 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Ideas

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on ideas

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?

33. We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy - at least until we have become as clever as they are.

59. Ideas too are a life and a world.

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.