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Georg C Lichtenberg Inspirational Quotes (187)

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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Those who never have time do least
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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