Georg Christoph Lichtenberg by (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

Author:(SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781438441986
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-06-06T04:00:00+00:00

Golden Notebook

Winter 1789

What is duration? According to my system? [15]

Where we experience no localized sensation, where we do not actually feel the impression on our sense organs, we cannot reduce anything to our bodies. If we could not shut our eyes, we would not know whether we see with our head or our stomach. […] [16]

If the New Testament accurately contains the precepts of the Christian religion, then the Catholic religion is hardly Christian. Indeed, it is even written there: drink ye all of it. The Catholic religion received its present form in times of the grossest ignorance in which minds were fettered, and now man who is once again permitted to exercise reason is supposed to continue to adhere to it. This is impossible, and it can be maintained only by fire and sword. [33]

Form is determination or the manner of thinking something; matter is what is given and determinable. [54]

The resolution to make the inner feeling of bliss, however it might arise, everlasting through virtue is a praise of the being in which or through which I exist—be it the god of the Christians or of Spinoza. [58]

It is necessary to agitate all of our knowledge and then let it settle again in order to see how everything is arranged. […] [78]

To discover between things relationships and similarities that no one else sees. In this way, wit can lead to invention. [86]

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