• As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 52, 1799.