Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Creativity
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, catalogued under creativity, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, entry #226391: "We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are."
Attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, entry #146774: "If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
6 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Creativity
"We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are."
"If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards."
"Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven."
"The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing."
"What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?"
"What are Lichtenberg Figures and how are they created?"