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Letter "G" » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
«A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.»
«Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.»
«Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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«Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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«With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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«The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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«The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«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.»
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