G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg quote: "There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself."

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the ...
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would ...
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before...
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without...
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfe...
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest...
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday pen...
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when...
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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men n...
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it ...
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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innoc...
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever...
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the ...
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I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himse...
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with whic...
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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of c...
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea ...
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The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of o...
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Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the hea...
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the ...
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Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and ex...
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
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To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on al...
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still hone...
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less...
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one ...
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If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this fo...
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right co...
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but...
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which ...
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet c...
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesse...
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It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold peop...
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of ju...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
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If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wr...
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible infl...
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Tem...
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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole t...
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People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit...
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you ca...
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the a...
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had ...
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants a...
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a chi...
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by po...
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; o...
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one h...
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding...
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
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If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound ...
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly th...
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too ...
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It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feel...
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The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and...
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clou...
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when t...
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of sayi...
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of re...
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals...
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderl...
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to dis...
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animal...
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer t...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eye...
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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read th...
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they...
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mou...
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must a...
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Some men come by the name of genius in the same way as an insect comes by the name of centipede - no...
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God ...
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
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I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same ...
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been pre...
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You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying
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As nations improve, so do their gods
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Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think
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Those who never have time do least
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and co...
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Jedermann sollte wenigstens soviel Philosophie und schöne Wissenschaften studieren, als nötig ist,...
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The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle
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To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if...
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said i...
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Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y ...
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with every...
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
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It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down...
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering ...
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In the weak, lack of strength to defend oneself passes over into complaining. This can be observed i...
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of th...
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For the loss of those we have loved there is no alleviation but time and carefully and rationally ch...
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He who is enamoured of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rival...
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Sometimes we know a person better than we can say, or at least than we do say.
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En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos ...
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Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet ...
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It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to ...
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...
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It makes a great difference by what path we come to a knowledge of certain things. If we begin in ou...
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem...
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Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of i...
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

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G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

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