Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes - Page 12

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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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• 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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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Years, Genius, Original Ideas

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1779 - 1788.

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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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• 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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• It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Smell, Our Words, Tools

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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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• I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.

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  Giving, Done, Deeds

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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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• 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.

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  Men, Thinking, Effort

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

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• There is a great difference between believing in something and believing in it again.

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  Believe, Differences, Believing In Something

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• If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious picture. We all sit together at a lecture and possess the necessary principles for understanding it, yet we always pay more attention to the chatter of our fellow students than to the lecturer's discourse. Or, if our neighbor copies something down, we sneak it from him, stealing what he himself may have heard imperfectly, and add it to our own errors of spelling and opinion.

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  Teacher, Errors, Race

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• Brevity: To say at once whatever is to be said.

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  Said, Brevity

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• Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

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  Sickness, Mankind, Defects

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

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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.

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  Cat, Eye, Cutting

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

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  Math, Mind, Needs

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• It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Games, Imagination

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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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• 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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• It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

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  Book, Evidence, Please

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• Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

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  Want, Sides

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 32, 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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