Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.


K 68 - Aphorisms (1765-1799) - Notebook K (1789-1793)


The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking....

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking....

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking....

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking....