is paved with good intentions and – New Year’s resolutions. Proverb or aphorism? Wedneday Quotes: Resolutions for 24
Tag: Aphorismus
A Light on the Mountain
When I looked at older Weekly Prompts I was delighted to see the name of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. He is definitely the master of aphorisms and I love paging through his collected “thought snippets” as he liked to call them.
It’s an added bonus that Lichtenberg comes from our area. He was born in Ober-Ramstadt in 1742, in the Odenwald near Darmstadt. The school our sons attended for a few years was named after him.
He had this to say about birds (or was it humans?):
“Die buntesten Vögel singen am schlechtesten. Das gilt auch bei den Menschen.”
I couldn’t find a translation into English, so here is my attempt:
“The most colourful birds are the worst singers. That also holds true for humans.”
A Few Wise Words
and some not so much.
One of the many very witty and occasionally sharp aphorisms of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a physicist and satirist who was one of the foremost European thinkers of the 18th century.
This wall stands in the middle of a little square, next to the Lichtenbergstraße in Darmstadt. I don’t know if it was purposely designed to invite others to add their thoughts or if sprayers just gravitate naturally to it. The slogans are mainly political (if crude) and their topicality suggest that the wall is at least occasionally scrubbed. I have no idea where the stag beetle comes in.
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