It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement. Georg C. Lichtenberg
 Brevity Greek Poet

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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Heaven
If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Discovery
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 American Actor
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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Adversity
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Apathy
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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 American Actor
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Age And Aging
If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Angels
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Applause
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

 Aristocracy
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