Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Fame

Quotes about: Fame

• The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Long, Portraits, Littles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 20, 1799.

• A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Fame, Admirer

• The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Wind, Names, Two

  "'Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten' ('Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious')". Book by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strache, p. 101, 1960.

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