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Only 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 people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
- Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each…
- I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
- The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
- To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
- Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
- An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
- In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
- Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.
- Some people read only because they are too lazy to think.
- Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied,…
- It is strange that only extraordinary men make the discoveries, which later appear so easy and simple.
- To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial…
- Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
- The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real…
- 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…
- If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.
- 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:…
- 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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