Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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

To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

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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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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

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