Way Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

12 Way quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg’s Enlightenment‑era musings on the way we think and act bring a rational, witty flavor to the concept of direction. The 12 quotes form a compact yet insightful snapshot of his perspective.

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Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not…

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If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a…

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Truly, men make too little use of their lives; and so it is no wonder that the world should still be in…

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Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

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If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The…

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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it…

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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points "born" and "died" farther away from one another. The…

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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way…

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One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior…

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I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary…

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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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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