“ A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
“ Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ ...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ ...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Aujourd'hui, on cherche partout à répandre le savoir; qui sait si, dans quelques siècles, il n'y aura pas des universités pour rétablir l'ancienne ignorance? ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Nothing puts a greater obstacle in the way of the progress of knowledge than thinking that one knows what one does not yet know. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to peer out. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
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