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Make Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever…
- If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we…
- 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…
- I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that,…
- 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…
- The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take…
- You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.
- Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.
- Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
- It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
- Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
- To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
- Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever…
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