Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.


F 44 - Aphorisms (1765-1799) - Notebook F (1776-1779)


The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new...