Quotes by Lichtenberg, Georg C.

He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he becam >>

To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is re >>

Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer. >>

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's >>

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: >>

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. >>

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.