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• There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Mean, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 84, 1799.

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• If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Couple, Believe

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 82, 1799.

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• The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Intellectual, Use

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• We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Religious, Philosophical, Character

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• Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Delight

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 77, 1799.

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• A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, You Like It, Good Book

  "Vermischte Schriften". Book by Georg C. Lichtenberg, 1789-1793.

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• I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.

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  Lying, Down And, Opinion

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 73, 1799.

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• Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Heaven, Doubt

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 34, 1799.

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• In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Sage, World, Fool

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• 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

  Clever, Crazy, Work

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 97, 1799.

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• If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Printing, Born, Messiah

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• It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Roots, Effort, Matter

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, ("Notebook F", F 154), (1776-1779).

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• A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Horse, Dutch, Donkey

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• I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Forget, Greater

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• It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Would Be, Strange, Equal

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 26, 1799.

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• In every man there is something of all men.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Every Man

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• Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Heaven, Invention

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• Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Accounts, All Things

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• Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  War, Food, Wine

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook A 14, 1799.

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• With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Spring, Men, Blind Belief

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 81, 1799.

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• A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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

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• He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Life, Conceited, Rivals

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

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• The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Destiny, Storm, Shelter

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• God: personified incomprehensibility.

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• People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Hands, People

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