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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.

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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage -- he won't encounter many rivals.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

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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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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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Body

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

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Books And Reading

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

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Books And Reading

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar -- that I call an achievement.

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Brevity Greek Poet

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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Jokes And Jokers

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

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Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Man loves company, even if it is only that of a smoldering candle.

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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.

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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that.

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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a large assembly of people a history of the human soul written in a kind of Chinese ideograms.

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Faces

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.

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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war? - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?

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Food And Eating

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

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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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ideals And Idealism

Ideas too are a life and a world. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Ideas too are a life and a world.

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Ideas

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

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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. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

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Philosophers And Philosophy

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too. - Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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