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Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes

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Some people read only because they are too lazy to think  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) In every man there is something of all men  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) They do not think, therefore they are not  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Ask yourself always: how can this be done better?  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Non cogitant, ergo non sunt  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) God creates the animals, man creates himself  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) As nations improve, so do their gods  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Everyone is a genius at least once a year  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) 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  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) 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 Quotes) The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect  (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
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