Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes - Page 7

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• Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophical, Years, Would Be

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

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• A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Discovery, Iron

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• To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Appreciation, Mean, Power

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 42, 1799.

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• Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid person.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Perseverance, Stupid, Silence

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• It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes, clucks, to gurgle, tinkles, blows, snores, claps, to lisp, to cough, it boils, to scream, to weep, to sob, to croak, to stutter, to lisp, to coo, to breathe, to clash, to bleat, to neigh, to grumble, to scrape, to bubble. These words, and others like them, which express sounds are more than mere symbols: they are a kind of hieroglyphics for the ear.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Blow, Sound, Cracks

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• If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Country, Firsts, England

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, "Notebook F", (F 33), 1776-1779.

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• God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Philosopher, Process

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• Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Time, Anger, Dark

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• Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Witty, Lying, Writing

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 25, 1799.

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• The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Greek, Hibernation, Able

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

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• The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

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  Mind, Criticism, Weakness

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• Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

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  Believe, Men, Weight

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 249, 1799.

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• What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Freedom, Employment, True Freedom

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook L 49, 1799.

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• Ideas too are a life and a world.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ideas, World

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 70, 1799.

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• Reading means borrowing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Creation, Masterpiece

  "Aphorisms" by Georg C. Lichtenberg, "Notebook J", (J 249), 1789.

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• Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Soul, Library, Wide

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• Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Lessons, Damage, Firsts

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• What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Genius, Definitions, Judgment

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook E 92, 1799.

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• They do not think, therefore they are not.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Science, Thinking

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• Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Events, May, Showers

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• The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.

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  Spring, Cuckoos, Pieces

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• I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Dog, Tired, Journey

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• A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Thinking, Spirit

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• Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

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  Wise, Courage, Blessing

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