Errors Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.” quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg — Download Open image

“Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.”

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 that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others…

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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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