Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Evening

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was German scientist, satirist. Explore interesting quotes on evening.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: 274   quotes 3   likes

“Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

K 40
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

Love

“There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

L 16
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)

God , People

“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.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

B 37 "Speech of a suicide composed shortly before the act."
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

Nature

“Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

F 78
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“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.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

J 85
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

People , Way , Behavior

“We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. Even if my philosophy does not extend to discovering anything new, it does nevertheless possess the courage to regard as questionable what has long been thought true.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

B 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

Way , Feeling , Courage , Question

“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…”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

E 91
Variant translation: A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

Thinking

“If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

E 10
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

Truth

“There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

D 70
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

People

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

F 87
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

Stupidity

“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

C 33
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

Truth , Age

“He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.”

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

B 30
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

Peace , Passion