Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Nothing is more conductive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
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If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called Damn It.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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There is no mistaking a good book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
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Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.
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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
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...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
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If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
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I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
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What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
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