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Good Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see…
- What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw…
- Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.
- The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest…
- The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard…
- A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
- 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.
- If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
- 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…
- If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- 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…
- 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,…
- You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
- It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would…
- The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
- We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious:…
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