Quotes by G. C. Lichtenberg

G. C. Lichtenberg
German writer and physicist
Alive from: 1742-1799
Category: Writers (Contemporary)
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: 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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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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