One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one c…

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind. ✨ Aphorisms. Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 51, 1799.
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