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Much Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade,…
- The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
- The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress…
- There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler…
- Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
- If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
- Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing.
- Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by…
- As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great…
- The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
- The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.
- The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit; the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
- It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about…
- Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
- When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to…
- Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism
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