“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
C 33
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)
Radio From Hell (June 8, 2005)
“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)
“A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella.”
Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“The news was highly coloured, even if the print was black and white.”
Genevieve Cogman (1972) novelist and game designer
Source: The Lost Plot (2017), Chapter 9 (p. 118)
Alexis De Tocqueville book Democracy in America
Book One, Chapter XVI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book One
“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”
Lenny Bruce (1925–1966) comedian and social critic
“I bought a new camera. It's very advanced. You don't even need it.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
When the Leaves Blow Away (2006), I Still Have a Pony (2007)
“You will be here and now which opens a whole new space and even more.”
Jakub Tencl (1978) Czech clinical hypnotherapist and writer
Source: The mystery of life : you are the light, and that's indestructible truth, Tencl, Jakub,, 9781512399882, [United Kingdom? https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914353319,, 914353319]
“It is difficult to get a hearing from busy men for even a great new truth.”
Charles Scott Sherrington (1857–1952) English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient
[408247, October 1927, Listerian Oration: 1927 (delivered at the annual meeting of the Canadian Medical Association, Toronto, June 18, 1927), Canadian Medical Association Journal, 17, 10 Pt 2, 1255–1263, 20316567, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC408247/] quote from p. 1261; This oration sponsored by the Lister Club of the Canadian Medical Association should not be confused with the Lister Oration sponsored by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Marilyn Ferguson (1938–2008) American writer
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Twelve, Human Connections: Relationships Changing