5 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Identity

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on identity

13. Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

54. We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

90. One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

120. I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

133. Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.