Georg C. Lichtenberg Ideas Quotations

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.

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!

Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

Ideas too are a life and a world.

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?

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?