#lichtenbergianquotes — Public Fediverse posts

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.115 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

To write with sensibility requires more than tears and moonlight. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.23 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

The thought still has too much elbow-room in the expression; I have pointed with the end of a stick when I should have pointed with the point of a needle. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.18 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #SuccessiveApproximation

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

If you want to make a young person read a certain book you must not so much commend it to him directly as praise it in his presence. He will then go and find it for himself. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.141 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

To seek to see in everything something no one has yet seen and no one has yet thought of. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.246 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #MakeTheThingThatIsNot

Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Whisper, immortal muse, of the insanity of the great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.13 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

I have jotted down a host of little thoughts and sketches, but they are awaiting not so much a final revision as a few more glimpses of the sun that will make them blossom. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook B.55 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

I have jotted down a host of little thoughts and sketches, but they are awaiting not so much a final revision as a few more glimpses of the sun that will make them blossom. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook B.55 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

I have jotted down a host of little thoughts and sketches, but they are awaiting not so much a final revision as a few more glimpses of the sun that will make them blossom. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook B.55 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

Waste-book method highly recommended. A note made of every phrase, every expression. Wealth can also be acquired through saving up truths in pennyworths. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook F.164 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #WasteBooks

I imagine that when we reach the boundaries of things set for us, or even before we reach them, we can see into the infinite, just as on the surface of the earth we gaze out into immeasurable space. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.52 (p. 13) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

I imagine that when we reach the boundaries of things set for us, or even before we reach them, we can see into the infinite, just as on the surface of the earth we gaze out into immeasurable space. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.52 (p. 13) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

I imagine that when we reach the boundaries of things set for us, or even before we reach them, we can see into the infinite, just as on the surface of the earth we gaze out into immeasurable space. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.52 (p. 13) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.23 (p. 13) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.23 (p. 13) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.23 (p. 13) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook I.9 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook I.9 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

To discover relationships and similarities between things that no one else sees. Wit can in this way lead to invention. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook I.9 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

Perhaps the roof-tiler fortifies himself to meet the perils of the day through a morning prayer; perhaps, however, he does it with a portion of baked cat's brains. Oh if only we sometimes knew what gives people courage! — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.114 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes

We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.8 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #AbortiveAttempts

We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.8 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #AbortiveAttempts

We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.8 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #AbortiveAttempts

It is almost impossible to write anything good without imagining someone, or a certain group of people, whom one is addressing. In 999 cases out of a thousand it at any rate greatly facilitates the execution. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.76 (p. ) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Audience

It is almost impossible to write anything good without imagining someone, or a certain group of people, whom one is addressing. In 999 cases out of a thousand it at any rate greatly facilitates the execution. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.76 (p. ) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Audience

It is almost impossible to write anything good without imagining someone, or a certain group of people, whom one is addressing. In 999 cases out of a thousand it at any rate greatly facilitates the execution. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook L.76 (p. ) #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Audience

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.258 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt

A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook J.258 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #Gestalt