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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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