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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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 want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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