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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
«If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.»
«To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.»
«There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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undertake
«A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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resents
«Men still have to be governed by deception.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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deception
«One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Experience
«We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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observing