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Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older Picture Quote #1

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can’t do anything from early habit Picture Quote #1

To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one’s debts Picture Quote #1

Nothing reveals a man’s character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense Picture Quote #1

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back Picture Quote #1

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? Picture Quote #1

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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind Picture Quote #1

Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything Picture Quote #1

Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? Picture Quote #1

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them Picture Quote #1

A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers Picture Quote #1

The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring Picture Quote #1

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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy Picture Quote #1

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones Picture Quote #1

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories Picture Quote #1

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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams Picture Quote #1

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer’s own weaknesses reflected back from others Picture Quote #1

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones? Picture Quote #1

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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can’t do anything from early habit (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one’s debts (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Nothing reveals a man’s character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) 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 (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) 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 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 (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes) The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it (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 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 Quotes) What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don’t deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don’t we just as often draw the wrong ones? (Georg C Lichtenberg Quotes)

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