Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Nowadays Quotes

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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. … To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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?

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nowadays we already have books about books and descriptions of descriptions.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg