3 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes on Legacy

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg quotes on legacy

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.

48. What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

137. My inquiries into physics could perhaps be given the title: legacies. For people do also bequeath trifles, after all.