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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?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


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


Translation

Translation

(German, French)



German
Was hilft aller Sonnenaufgang, wenn wir nicht aufstehen?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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



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.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods

I am rising to the work of a human being.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations



Quotes for: sun


Quotes

Quotes for: sun


It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité / 





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





Education is another sun to those who are educated.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert / 





Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





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.
Hildegard of Bingen - Causae et Curae / 






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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


We all err, but everybody errs differently.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg - Quotation of uncertain origin / 





He could refract an idea which everyone thought simple into seven others, as the prism does with sunlight, each finer than the other, then gather together a host of others to recreate the white light of the sun, where others merely saw disorder and confusion.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Is it not peculiar that a literal translation is almost always a terrible one? And yet, anything can be translated well. One sees here what it really means to understand fully a language; it means to understand fully the people who speak it.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Do not have too artificial an idea of man but judge him naturally. Don't consider him too good or too bad.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





There is something in every person's character that cannot be broken — the bony structure of his character.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 







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