What did Georg C. Lichtenberg mean by: Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany Copy
+ Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. Feraz Zeid, August 9, 2023December 12, 2023, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Harm, Weakness, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Book, Sound, Writing, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ Ideas too are a life and a world. Feraz Zeid, September 19, 2023December 26, 2023, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Ideas, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage – he won’t encounter many rivals. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Encounters, Love, Rivals, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Neutrality, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit – nay, than they think. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Education, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024February 9, 2024, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Stupid, Wisdom, Wise, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
+ Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Georg C. Lichtenberg, Blame, Excuse, 0 - Georg C. Lichtenberg Physicist · Germany
Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion. - Jean Fritz
But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown! - William Cowper Poet · England
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
