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Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes
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The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Deliberate virtue is never worth much: The virtue of feeling or habit is the thing (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures! (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done (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 Quotes)
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)
There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)