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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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 are made.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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