Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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 astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Beautiful, Science, Etc

• The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Real, Drawing, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 38, 1799.

• The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Art, Violin, Hearing

• I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cutting, Thinking, Pleasure

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