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Who 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,…
- He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
- The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
- The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
- He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
- Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to…
- We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
- 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…
- There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle