3 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Imitation

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on imitation

21. Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was - nobody any longer wanted to be that.

32. To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

152. The intercourse with reasonable people is advisable to everybody because, in this way, a blockhead can become wise by imitation, for the greatest blockheads can imitate, even apes and elephants can do it.