Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Beauty, Nature, Math

  "Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions". Book by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 84, 1959.

• It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spiritual, Reflection, Wrath

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 11, 1799.

• Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Motivation, Should Have, Giving

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook L", L 24), (1793-1796).

• Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Giving, Doe, Warning

• I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Giving, Done, Deeds

• First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Giving, Littles

• A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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