Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Birthday, Age, Needs

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 33, 1799.

• The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very great steps in its direction and now discover we are still very far away from it. With the most rational philosophers an increase in their knowledge is always attended by an increased conviction of their ignorance.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Taken, Ignorance, Science

• He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Peace, Passion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 30, 1799.

• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Children, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.

• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Anger, Dark

• We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Understanding, 50th Birthday, Age

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 4, 1799.

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