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Letter "G" » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
«If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.»
«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.»
«There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.»
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«A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.»
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«Men still have to be governed by deception.»
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«One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.»
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«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?»
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«We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.»
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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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