G C Lichtenberg

G C Lichtenberg: There is no...

G C Lichtenberg: There is no...

There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who...

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G C Lichtenberg: People who never...

G C Lichtenberg: People who never...

People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.

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G C Lichtenberg: The American who...

G C Lichtenberg: The American who...

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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G C Lichtenberg: The most successful...

G C Lichtenberg: The most successful...

The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

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G C Lichtenberg: There were honest...

G C Lichtenberg: There were honest...

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where...

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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: Prejudices are so...

G C Lichtenberg: Prejudices are so...

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many...

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G C Lichtenberg: The greatest events...

G C Lichtenberg: The greatest events...

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most...

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G C Lichtenberg: There are people...

G C Lichtenberg: There are people...

There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn...

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G C Lichtenberg: To receive applause...

G C Lichtenberg: To receive applause...

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our...

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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: The pleasures of...

G C Lichtenberg: The pleasures of...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who...

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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: There is no...

G C Lichtenberg: There is no...

There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too...

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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: 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: The sure conviction...

G C Lichtenberg: The sure conviction...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are...

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G C Lichtenberg: To do the...

G C Lichtenberg: To do the...

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its...

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G C Lichtenberg: To be content...

G C Lichtenberg: To be content...

To be content with life --or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a...

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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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