Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Life
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, entry #12871: "Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
Attributed to Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, entry #31683: "It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."
9 Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Life
"Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads."
"It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists."
"If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger."
"A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments."
"To be content with life — or to live merrily, rather — all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow."
"Ideas too are a life and a world."
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"People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws."
"There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another... The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers."