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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

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"The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Insanity quotes.
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"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?"
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."
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"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Ideas quotes.
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"Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Opinions quotes.
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"He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals."
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"The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it."
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"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts."
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"Some people read because they are too lazy to think."
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"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Wisdom quotes.
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"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."
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"I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same state."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Dying quotes.
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"To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation."
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"Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams."
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"A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Character quotes.
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"What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!"
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg in Belief quotes.
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"Judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them."
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"A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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"There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible."
-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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