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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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