Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Words
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
All
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
General
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In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
Few
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Commentator
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A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.
Appears
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Affects
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Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is…
Baked
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Do not say hypothesis, and even less theory: say way of thinking.
Even Less
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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 books, or ideas…
Afford
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could…
Been
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
Art
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You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
Astrology
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To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
Book
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
All
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God, who winds up our sundials ...
God
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Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
Almost Tempted
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Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
Damage
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Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.
God
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Better
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Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.
Came
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Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
Among
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I have never yet met anyone who did not think it was an agreeable sensation to cut tinfoil with scissors.
Agreeable
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Perseverance can lend the appearance of dignity and grandeur to many actions, just as silence in company affords wisdom and apparent intelligence to a stupid…
Action
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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.
Blind
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
Belles
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