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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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