“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?” IfsWantIdeasDevilSomething New Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.” WritingTryingIdeasLanguage Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“How did mankind ever come by the idea of liberty? What a grand thought it was!” IdeasLibertyMankind Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.” YearsIdeasRealWisdomTogetherTalentGeniusFavouriteOriginal IdeasTalent And GeniusReal GeniusBright IdeasReal Intelligence Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.” PeopleBookIdeasWould BeReadingAirReaderVacuumsBook Reading Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“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.” ThinkingGivingShouldBookIdeasWholeMightWishThousandCornersDiscussionChaptersPosterityHintsMiscellaneous Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?” IdeasGod Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.” PeopleGivingLittlesIdeasSpiritualAttentionExampleReflectionIllPhysicsPreacherPreachingWrathEvangelism Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“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.” IfsIdeasBodySeemsNobilityFilthyObscene Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
