The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.


The Lichtenberg Reader: Selected Writings (ed. 1959)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.

The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.