Best Georg C. Lichtenberg Proverbs
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Any
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
Lie
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a…
Ability
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
Him
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Able
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it…
Break
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard…
Call
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
Almost Impossible
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.
Atheism
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.
Dignity
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable…
Ability
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Criticism
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three…
Added
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
Inspirational
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism
Barbarism
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
Book
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The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.
Inmates
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Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they…
Centipede
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
First Step
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
Been
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You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that…
Beautiful
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Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
Abilities
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less…
Account
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
Any
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually…
Afterwards
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