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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

German - Scientist | July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

History Time Thought Dark Will Own

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Character Person Nothing Clearly He

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men Judge Opinions Must Made Them

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

God Man Bible Process Create Image

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Love Advantage Who Encounter Rivals

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?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Good Experience Drawing Wrong Right

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nature Alone Remember Always Observe

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Fly Lights Want Secure Most

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Character Man Nothing He Else Takes

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man Free Believe I Believe Right

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men Effort Speak Think Find Without

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

People Thinking Who Read Simply

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