Georg Ernst Stahl Quotes

About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with phosphorus; this increase of weight arises from a prodigious quantity of air that is fixed during combustion and combines with the vapors. This discovery, which I have established by experiments, that I regard as decisive, has led me to think that what is observed in the combustion of sulfur and phosphorus may well take place in the case of all substances that gain in weight by combustion and calcination; and I am persuaded that the increase in weight of metallic calyxes is due to the same cause ... This discovery seems to me one of the most interesting that has been made since Stahl and since it is difficult not to disclose something inadvertently in conversation with friends that could lead to the truth I have thought it necessary to make the present deposit to the Secretary of the Academy to await the time I make my experiments public. ~ Antoine Lavoisier

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said. ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer

The long history of this idea before Kant made it the basis of his Critique of Judgment shows that the concept of taste was originally more a moral than an aesthetic idea. ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number. ~ Georg Cantor

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ~ Ernst Fischer

Every relationship between two individuals or two groups will be characterized by the ratio of secrecy that is involved in it. ~ Georg Simmel

The lazy flesh disappeared. Our muscles became hard as steel, refined on the anvil of an experienced blacksmith. Even our faces changed. Among other things, we learned to ride, to fence, to take a fall. And these we learned for life. ~ Ernst Junger

The heart-throb for the welfare of humanity therefore passes into the ravings of an insane self-conceit, into the fury of consciousness to preserve itself from destruction; and it does this by expelling from itself the perversion which it is itself, and by striving to look on it and express it as something else. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want? ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world. ~ Georg Buchner

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer. ~ Georg Brandes

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house. ~ Georg Brandes

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket. ~ Ernst Zundel

All cities we have visited are precincts in this metropolis of the mind. ~ Hans-Georg Gadamer

Surmise is the gossamer that malice blows on fair reputations, the corroding dew that destroys the choice blossom. Surmise is primarily the squint of suspicion, and suspicion is established before it is confirmed. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall. ~ Ernst Haas

When in doubt, though, counter with your own cool. ~ Jerry Stahl

Time is a long long long time before the dawn - Crosby, Stills & Nash ~ Ricky Stahl

By fools, knaves fatten; by bigots, priests are well clothed; every knave finds a gull. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard. ~ Ernst Lubitsch

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet is a valet. ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Although I am an anarch, I am not anti-authoritarian. Quite the opposite: I need authority, although I do not believe in it. My critical faculties are sharpened by the absence of the credibility that I ask for. As a historian, I know what can be offered. ~ Ernst Junger

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Fools with bookish knowledge art children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will. ~ Ernst Haas

They managed to sleep together, but there wasn't enough for dreaming. ~ Ernst Moritz Arndt

Engineers had not framework for understanding Mandelbrot's description, but mathematicians did. In effect, Mandelbrot was duplicating an abstract construction known as the Cantor set, after the nineteenth-century mathematician Georg Cantor. To make a Cantor set, you start with the interval of numbers from zero to one, represented by a line segment. Then you remove the middle third. That leaves two segments, and you remove the middle third of each (from one-ninth to two-ninths and from seven-ninths to eight-ninths). That leaves four segments, and you remove the middle third of each- and so on to infinity. What remains? A strange "dust" of points, arranged in clusters, infinitely many yet infinitely sparse. Mandelbrot was thinking of transmission errors as a Cantor set arranged in time. ~ James Gleick

I want her sunrise and her sunset. ~ Shey Stahl

The back of my neck says; If you're close enough to read this, you better be pullin' my hair and spankin' my ass! ~ Shey Stahl

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Liberalism is to freedom as anarchism is to anarchy. ~ Ernst Junger

Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought. ~ Ernst Mach

There are many who believe that 'Marriage is not a word - it is a sentence!' Whether you are indeed 'married' or if you are 'single', I am sure that funny quotes on weddings and marriages always tend to put a wicked smile to the face. It is often said that 'People who are married are often desperate to get out of it and people who are single can't wait to get in!' ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

A work of art wastes away and becomes lustreless in surroundings where it has a price but not a value. It radiates only when surrounded by love. It is bound to wilt in a world where the rich have no time and the cultivated no money. But it never harmonizes with borrowed greatness. ~ Ernst Junger

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs. ~ Georg Brandes

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

When we meet with better fare than was expected, the disappointment is overlooked even by the unscrupulous. When we meet with worse than was expected, philosophers alone know how to make it better. ~ Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the necessity of the actual infinite can be demonstrated. ~ Georg Cantor

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ~ Georg Simmel

For the metropolis presents the peculiar conditions which are revealed to us as the opportunities and the stimuli for the development of both these ways of allocating roles to men. ~ Georg Simmel

Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ~ Ernst Mayr

Freedom and whores are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun. ~ Georg Buchner