Nature Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

12 Nature quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Lichtenberg’s sharp humor flashes across these twelve brief notes, where he treats the natural world as a source of both curiosity and amusement.

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The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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…

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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush,…

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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no…

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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.…

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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we…

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

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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…

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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…

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The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always…

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If nature be regarded as the teacher and we poor human beings as her pupils, the human race presents a very curious…

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do…

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Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

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It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners…

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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not…

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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches…

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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds…

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is…

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