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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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