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G C Lichtenberg: If this is...

G C Lichtenberg: If this is...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: It is almost...

G C Lichtenberg: It is almost...

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in...

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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: Theologians always try...

G C Lichtenberg: Theologians always try...

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

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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: There are very...

G C Lichtenberg: There are very...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: One might call...

G C Lichtenberg: One might call...

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with...

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G C Lichtenberg: People nowadays have...

G C Lichtenberg: People nowadays have...

People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the...

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G C Lichtenberg: The most dangerous...

G C Lichtenberg: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Source: Aphorisms,...

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G C Lichtenberg: There exists a...

G C Lichtenberg: There exists a...

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something...

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G C Lichtenberg: To grow wiser...

G C Lichtenberg: To grow wiser...

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and...

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G C Lichtenberg: We accumulate our...

G C Lichtenberg: We accumulate our...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: We cannot remember...

G C Lichtenberg: We cannot remember...

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always...

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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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G C Lichtenberg: We say that...

G C Lichtenberg: We say that...

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies...

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Martin H Fischer: When there is...

Martin H Fischer: When there is...

When there is no explanation, they give it a name, which immediately explains everything.

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Martin H Fischer: We humans are...

Martin H Fischer: We humans are...

We humans are the greatest of earth's parasites.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Roseanne Barr: There's nothing like...

Roseanne Barr: There's nothing like...

There's nothing like a hardship song to set my toes atappin.

Source: In The...

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Elayne Boosler: My ancestors wandered...

Elayne Boosler: My ancestors wandered...

My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask...

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