A Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German - Scientist
July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

No mass appeal. Ergo no profit. Ergo no use. The current World Credo.

Lucille Kallen

CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum' 'I think that I think, therefore I think that I am' as close an approach.

Ambrose Bierce

The point is that you free the ego. The ego is only a pronoun. It's a Greek first person pronoun, ergo. When you're in Greece you say, Ergo wants to take a bus, and you don't mean your ego wants to take a bus, like some big entity, you only mean I want to take a bus.

Robert Thurman

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

William of Ockham

The gods have their own laws. [Lat., Sunt superis sua jura.]

Ovid

All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

There is a God within us and intercourse with heaven. [Lat., Est deus in nobis; et sunt commercia coeli.]

Ovid

Therefore. Ergo. Erg. Argh. Ugh.

Rachel Cohn

Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.

Petronius

The gods give that man some profit to whom they are propitious. [Lat., Cui homini dii propitii sunt aliquid objiciunt lucri.]

Plautus

History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

Oswald Spengler

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver makes precious. [Lat., Acceptissima semper munera sunt auctor quae pretiosa facit.]

Ovid

An army abroad is of little use unless there are prudent counsels at home. [Lat., Parvi enim sunt foris arma, nisi est consilium domi.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non temporum.

Seneca the Younger

The African lions rush to attack bulls; they do not attack butterflies. [Lat., In tauros Libyci ruunt leones; Non sunt papilionibus molesti.]

Martial

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Quintus Curtius Rufus

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