G C Lichtenberg

G C Lichtenberg: The noble simplicity...

G C Lichtenberg: The noble simplicity...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: Many things about...

G C Lichtenberg: Many things about...

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...

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G C Lichtenberg: Of all the...

G C Lichtenberg: Of all the...

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

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G C Lichtenberg: The fly that...

G C Lichtenberg: The fly that...

The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swatter.

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G C Lichtenberg: The journalists have...

G C Lichtenberg: The journalists have...

The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in...

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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: Nothing can contribute...

G C Lichtenberg: Nothing can contribute...

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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G C Lichtenberg: Probably no invention...

G C Lichtenberg: Probably no invention...

Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven.

Source: Aphorisms.
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G C Lichtenberg: The great rule:...

G C Lichtenberg: The great rule:...

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a...

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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: Rational free spirits...

G C Lichtenberg: Rational free spirits...

Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the...

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G C Lichtenberg: The human tendency...

G C Lichtenberg: The human tendency...

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great...

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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 can hardly...

G C Lichtenberg: There can hardly...

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by...

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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 second sight...

G C Lichtenberg: The second sight...

The second sight possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe...

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G C Lichtenberg: The most dangerous...

G C Lichtenberg: The most dangerous...

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

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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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