Georg Christoph Quotes (7 Quotes)

Ambition and suspicion always go together.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men

It is not the force of his mind, but the force of wind that has carried that man so far.

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius - in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede, not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won't count up to fourteen.

It is as though our languages were in state of confusion when we want an idea they bring us a word, when we require a word they bring us a dash, and when we expected a dash there stands an obscenity.