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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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