9 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Influence

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on influence

4. Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

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

46. With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

47. We do not think good metaphors are anything very important, but I think that a good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on...

58. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

68. The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

84. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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.

160. We live in a world in which one fool makes many fools but one wise man only a few wise men.