Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes - Page 14

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• A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Clever, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 69, 1799.

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• Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Littles, Infinite

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• Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Animal, Mind

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• Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Giving, Doe, Warning

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• There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, People, World

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• 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

  Men, Long, Morality

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.

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• Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Flower, Garden, Judging

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• A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Soldier, Argument, Oppression

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 19, 1799.

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• Do not take too artificial a view of mankind but judge them from a natural standpoint, deeming them neither over good nor over bad.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Views, Judging, Natural

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