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Georg C. Lichtenberg

German scientist, satirist and anglophile

Nationality: German

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Type: Scientist

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Birth: 1742-1799

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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, a

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

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First we have to believe, and then we believe.

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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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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

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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.

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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.

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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

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If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for

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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.

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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

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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.

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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

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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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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

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Ideas too are a life and a world.

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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.

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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

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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.

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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

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Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

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I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up...

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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.

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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

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In each of us there is a little of all of us.

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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourse

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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

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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.

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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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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what the

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If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.

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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

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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.

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

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