Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Fame

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  • A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers

  • The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, "bread-bread-fame" or "fame-fame-bread."

    "'Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten' ('Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious')". Book by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strache, p. 101, 1960.
  • The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 20, 1799.
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