Ideas Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.

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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at…

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The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind.

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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…

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Probably no invention came more easily to man than heaven.

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It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners…

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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not…

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He who understands the wise is wise already.

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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches…

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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds…

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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It revealed a cruelty that really made one wonder if the universe was such a good idea after all.

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Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,…

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But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress…

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Making movies seemed so impossible as far as getting my ideas funded.

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