Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes - Page 11

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• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sickness, Mankind, Defects

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 100, 1799.

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• Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Thinking, Effort

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 58, 1799.

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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 he takes badly.

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  Character, Men, Failing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

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• Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Wicked, Demand

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 87, 1799.

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• A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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  Character, Resent, Personality Flaws

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 46, 1799.

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• The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

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  Real, Drawing, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 38, 1799.

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• Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

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  Elephants, Obscurity, Poodles

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 36, 1799.

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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 himself to be cannot be contested.

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  Believe, Men, Being Free

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 98, 1799.

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• Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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  Peace, Soul, Opinion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 11, 1799.

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• The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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  Men, Perfect, Apes

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 115, 1799.

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• We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

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  Sea, Position, Public Office

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 47, 1799.

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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 child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.

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  Children, Fall, Errors

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 146, 1799.

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• Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.

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  Writing, Intelligent, People

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• He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

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  Love, Rivals, Encounters

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 10, 1799.

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• A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

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  Eye, Police, Metaphor

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 91, 1799.

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• 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.

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  Believe, Wish, Doe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 149, 1799.

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• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

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  Nature, Simplicity, Noble

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 1, 1799.

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• He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

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  Hate, Doe, Flattery

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 41, 1799.

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• If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.

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  Lying, Deceit, Would Be

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 10, 1799.

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• Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Law, Aristocracy, Decree

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 44, 1799.

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• As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown.

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  Everyday, Let It Go, Pennies

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 33, 1799.

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• There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

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  Science, Progress, Desire

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 72, 1799.

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• Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.

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  Science, Light, Twenties

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• What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Math, Mind, Needs

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• He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Cat, Eye, Cutting

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