Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotations
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
Blame
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
Caused
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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 calculus - is…
Bases
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With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
Abstract
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People who have read a good deal rarely make great discoveries. I do not say this in excuse of laziness, but because invention presupposes an…
Contemplating
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by…
Breaking
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence "Two times two is four."
Doubt
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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 comes from Heaven.
Believe
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
Bearing
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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
Dust
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take…
All
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great…
Adepts
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example,…
Absent
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Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
Accounts
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Accounts
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
Almost Everywhere
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What we have to discover for ourselves leaves behind in our mind a pathway that can be used on another occasion.
Another Occasion
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Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls.
Balls
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
Arise
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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 are…
Ask
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He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.
Cat
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It thunders, howls, roars, hisses, whistles, blusters, hums, growls, rumbles, squeaks, groans, sings, crackles, cracks, rattles, flickers, clicks, snarls, tumbles, whimpers, whines, rustles, murmurs, crashes,…
Bleat
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There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.
Doe
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then…
Believe
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The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
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