"Wenn man manchen großen Taten und Gedanken bis zu ihrer Quelle nachspüren könnte, so würde man finden, dass sie öfters gar nicht in der Welt sein würden, wenn die Bouteille verkorkt geblieben wäre, aus der sie geholt wurden. Man glaubt nicht, wie viel aus jener Öffnung hervorkommt. Manche Köpfe tragen keine Früchte, wenn sie nicht wie Hyazinthenzwiebeln über Bouteillenhälsen stehen. Der Feige holt da seinen Mut, der Schüchterne Vertrauen auf eigne Kraft und der Elende Trost hervor."
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742 – 1799
deutscher Naturwissenschaftler, Schriftsteller und Philosoph
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