Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes - Page 14

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• Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Agreement, Propositions

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• What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ideas, Devil, Want

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 62, 1799.

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• Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Needs, Kind, Cases

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook D", D 89), (1773-1775).

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• There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth ... into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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  Art, Liars, Believe

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook E", E 59), (1775 - 1776).

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• A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

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  Men, Faults, Virtue

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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 present at the miracle itself.

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  Men, Miracle, Belief

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

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  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.

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  Book, People, World

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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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