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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?


What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?



Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Was hilft aller Sonnenaufgang, wenn wir nicht aufstehen?

French
A quoi bon l'aube si personne ne se lève ?




See also 

See also...



The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

The sun is new each day.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

I am rising to the work of a human being.




Quotes for: sun


Quotes

Quotes for: sun


It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.






Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.





Education is another sun to those who are educated.





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun






Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.





As the sun is the light of the day, so the soul is the light of the awakened body. As the moon is the light of the night, so is the soul the light of the sleeping body.











Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.





Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence “Two times two is four.”





Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.





In each of us there is a little of all of us.





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.












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