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Things Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- 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 human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- 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…
- 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…
- Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.
- Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our…
- We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the…
- We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before…
- The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
- I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
- 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…
- Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult…
- Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
- One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle