Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: My body is that part of...
Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:
German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can change. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world, my hypotheses cannot change the order of things.
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about thought:
Quotes for: body
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Quotes about the world:
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...
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