Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greatness, People, Desire

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 70, 1799.

• There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Progress, Desire

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 72, 1799.

• 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 C. Lichtenberg

  America, People, Political

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook G", G 2), (1779-1783).

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