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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: german
Birth: July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Topics

Nature Knowledge Human Nature New

When you give young people an opportunity to use their time wisely, we support them, and when we do that, we support ourselves.

Jesse White

Opportunity Time Support People You

Men don't really like skinny, do they?

Angelina Jolie

Men Skinny Like Really

I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

Riz Ahmed

Me Listening Influence Portrait Kind

I always said I wanted to play for a team that's challenging for every trophy that there is there.

Romelu Lukaku

Team Play Said Trophy Always Wanted

Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one.

Rufus Wainwright

Relationship Great Time People Kind

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Mary Cassatt

Tree Fruit Think You Up Shake

I think we are blind. Blind people who can see, but do not see.

Jose Saramago

People Think Blind See Who I Think

When you're doing a movie, your body doesn't allow you to get sick until you finish.

Johnny Depp

Sick Doing You Body Your Body Get

Open source is a beautiful way of collaborating; but what's happening on the free Internet is more akin to the 'crowdsourcing' of journalists and other content creators by advertisers who no longer have to pay them - only the search engines that parse their articles.

Douglas Rushkoff

Beautiful Free Search Internet Way

For those trying to protect the past, it is a way of retaining power, status, money, a way a life, predictability, comfort, control, and a bunch of other things like that. It is a struggle against the inevitability of change.

Brad Feld

Life Change Power Money Struggle

With stealth technology, the U.S. could spy on its Cold War adversaries without running the risk of getting caught.

Annie Jacobsen

Technology War Cold Risk Without

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.

Peter Zumthor

Great Time Simple Gardening Walls