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G C Lichtenberg: Astronomy is perhaps...

G C Lichtenberg: Astronomy is perhaps...

Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its...

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G C Lichtenberg: Honest, unaffected distrust...

G C Lichtenberg: Honest, unaffected distrust...

Honest, unaffected distrust of the powers of man is the surest sign of intelligence.

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G C Lichtenberg: I believe that...

G C Lichtenberg: I believe that...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be...

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G C Lichtenberg: God created man...

G C Lichtenberg: God created man...

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in...

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G C Lichtenberg: It is a...

G C Lichtenberg: It is a...

It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it...

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G C Lichtenberg: I have clearly...

G C Lichtenberg: I have clearly...

I have clearly noticed that often I have one opinion when I lie down and another one when I stand up, especially when...

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G C Lichtenberg: Love is blind,...

G C Lichtenberg: Love is blind,...

Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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G C Lichtenberg: Man is always...

G C Lichtenberg: Man is always...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: Much reading has...

G C Lichtenberg: Much reading has...

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.

Source: Aphorisms, Notebook...

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G C Lichtenberg: The most heated...

G C Lichtenberg: The most heated...

The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not...

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G C Lichtenberg: The most perfect...

G C Lichtenberg: The most perfect...

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this...

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G C Lichtenberg: There are people...

G C Lichtenberg: There are people...

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even...

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G C Lichtenberg: We are obliged...

G C Lichtenberg: We are obliged...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they...

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G C Lichtenberg: What I do...

G C Lichtenberg: What I do...

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of...

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Bernard Baruch: We didn't all...

Bernard Baruch: We didn't all...

We didn't all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.

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Oscar Wilde: He hasn't a...

Oscar Wilde: He hasn't a...

He hasn't a single redeeming vice.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....

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Ogden Nash: Some debts are...

Ogden Nash: Some debts are...

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring...

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Francis Quarles: Be wisely worldly,...

Francis Quarles: Be wisely worldly,...

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.

Source: Emblems.
-- Francis Quarles,...

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Oscar Wilde: A man's very...

Oscar Wilde: A man's very...

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells...

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Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

Oscar Wilde: The only thing...

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

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