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Us Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
- In each of us there is a little of all of us.
- 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,…
- With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.
- 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…
- 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…
- It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.
- Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
- Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism
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