Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Thoughts
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied,…
Across
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
Book
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
Ergo
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The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.
Best
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The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the…
Class
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
Drive
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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.
Inspirational
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
Book
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It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
Annoy
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
Dies
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
All
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
Any
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It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
Appear
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Adventure
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Bright
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Bible
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Beholds
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Defect
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
All
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial…
All
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Silly
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult…
Any
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
All
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under…
Call
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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Become Dangerous
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