Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Mind, Criticism, Weakness

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Soul, Library, Wide

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• It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Beautiful, Science, Etc

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• The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Soul, Body

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• I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, Our Actions, Sometimes

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• There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Believe, People, Wish

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• There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Writing, Sunshine, Weather

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• Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Expression, Soul, Originals

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• Ambition and suspicion always go together.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Ambition, Together, Suspicion

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• Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Blame, Excuse, Should

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 39, 1799.

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• Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Feelings, Virtue, Habit

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• Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Education, Men, Thinking

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• No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Despotism, Formidable

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• He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Reflection, Men, Knows

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 8, 1799.

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• Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Centre, Frontiers

  "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations". Book edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153, 1991.

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• Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Reviews, Enormous, Critical

  "Taking the pith", www.theguardian.com. June 1, 2001.

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• Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Battle, Strange, Should

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• To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Integrity, People, Faults

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• I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Grateful, Self, People

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• Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Virtue, Premeditation

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 13, 1799.

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