Whole Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Georg C. Lichtenberg’s reflections on wholeness arrive in nine brief statements. They blend his sharp humor with thoughtful observation, offering a quick, entertaining glimpse.

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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the…

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A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole…

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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through…

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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face. ... It is no great…

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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…

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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of…

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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral…

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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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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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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of,…

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

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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return

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