Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
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In the world we live in, one fool makes many fools, but one sage only a few sages.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What we are able to judge with feeling is very little; the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The way to determine the secret workings of Nature is from analogous cases where one has caught her in act.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A man of spirit must not think of the word difficulty as so much as existing. Away with it!
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg