Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Inspirational
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Die
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Reading means borrowing.
Borrowing
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To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.
Avoiding
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The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will…
Another Man
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Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up…
Certain
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The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very…
Age
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
Accomplished
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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…
Cautiousness
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Convinced
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Advantage
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Eye
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Affectation
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
Born
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through…
Become Foolish
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
American
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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 must none the…
Amount
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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.
Him
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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 that is a…
Bit
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps…
Condition
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more…
Alpine
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
Found
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
Accomplishment
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
Doe
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
Animal
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