Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Short Quotes

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

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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

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A knife without a blade, for which the handle is missing.

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Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

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A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

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One has to do something new in order to see something new.

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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

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This whole theory is good for nothing except disputing about.

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

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Soothsayers make a better living in the world than truthsayers.

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

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Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

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Man loves company — even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

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What they call 'heart' lies much lower than the fourth waistcoat button.

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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

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Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?

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Nowadays beautiful women are counted among the talents of their husbands.

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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

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He who understands nothing but chemistry doesn't even understand chemistry.

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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.

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Nowadays we already have books about books and descriptions of descriptions.

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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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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.

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Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

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