• To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 42, 1799.