The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength.


Georg Buchner

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America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of th...
GEORG W. HEGEL
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG
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