
F 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
Book II, p. 11.
Collected Works
F 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)
“A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can "talk" about him.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p298.
Letter to Octave Chanute (1 June 1900)
Context: Lilienthal’s enthusiastic efforts to arouse others may yet prove his most valuable contribution to the solution of the problem. What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much.
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.