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Very Quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
- I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...
- 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…
- The natural scientists of the previous age knew less than we do and believed they were very close to the goal: we have taken very…
- Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
- Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps…
- If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar…
- Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
- There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually…
- One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely…
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