I am convinced that, if God should ever create a man as our masters of arts and our professors of philosophy imagine man to be, he would be taken to the madhouse on the first day of his life...
Ich bin überzeugt, wenn Gott einmal einen solchen Menschen schaffen wollte, wie ihn sich die Magister und Professoren der Philosophie vorstellen, er müßte den ersten Tag ins Tollhaus gebracht werden...
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
New and Improved Edition?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Sudelbücher (F 32, tr. R. J. Hollingdale, with commas added):