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47 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes & Sayings
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47 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 1 July 1742. Died: 24 February 1799 |
Physicist
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Satirist
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Cannot say
Get better
Change
Must
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. s
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Everyone
Genius
Year
Bright ideas
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Man loves
Small
Burning candle
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Never undertake
Courage
Ask
Blessing
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Person reveals
Character
Joke
Resents
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
God
Created man
Image
Bible
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One must
Judge men
Opinions
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Men still have to be governed by deception.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Men
Governed
Deception
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
In love
Advantage
Encounter
Rivals
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Remember
Observe nature
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No words
Wisdom
Understands
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Fly
Swatted
Secure
Lights
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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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Prejudice
Speak
Mechanical instincts
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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 Christoph Lichtenberg
Falls
Character
Man
Badly
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Many people
Prevent
Thinking
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Greater impediment
Progress
Sciences
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Opposite
Something
Imitation
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Nothing can
Contribute
Peace
Soul
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nothing makes
Old
Thought
Growing older
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Virtue
Premeditation
Worth much
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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Sure conviction
Reason
Good minds
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Book
Mirror
Look
Apostle
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We accumulate
Opinion
Age
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Convinced
Love
Ourselves
Hate
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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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Obliged
Regard
Minds
Clever
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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Inferred
Man
Mistress
Weaknesses
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Someone
Occupies
Official position
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A handful
Soldiers
Mouthful
Arguments
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
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Most people
Disbelief
Founded
Blind belief
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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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Everywhere
Greater part
Human wisdom
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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Sickness
Greatest defect
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Truth
Needs
Garments
Appeal
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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 Christoph Lichtenberg
Gift
Employing
Vicissitudes
Life
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Delight
Understand
Abstract
System
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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Called
An acute
Human nature
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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 Christoph Lichtenberg
Receive applause
Works
Demand
Power
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One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Habit
Friction
Mind
Gliding over
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Pleasures
Imagination
Drawings
Models
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Know
Our weakness
Cease
Any harm
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Human tendency
Regard
Little things
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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 Christoph Lichtenberg
Life
Required
Bestow
Superficial glance
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Grow wiser
Learn
Fault
Instrument
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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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Man
Masterpiece
Creation
Believe
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Noble
Simplicity
Works
Nature
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Take back stuff
Bush
Cloud
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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
People
Necessary
Millions
Die
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Man
God
Passion
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