Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.


Georg Trakl

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It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical educatio...
HANS-GEORG GADAMER
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at tim...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of c...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN
The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider eve...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN
Men still have to be governed by deception.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misun...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG