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Humans Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a…
- To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can…
- The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
- It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
- What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
- 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.
- Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.
- 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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