Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Ideas
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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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy - at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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.