German - Scientist | July 1, 1742 - February 24, 1799
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
ImaginationPeoplePoorRealCannot
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
HabitMindFreeMoralHardOver
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
StandSpiritDemandStillOurMeans
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.
LifeLiveGrowThoughtfulBecome
The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
GreatLittle ThingsGreat ThingsMany
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
GrowBetterFeelLearnJudgeKnow
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
ManFreeCreationFree WillWillHe
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
NobilityThingsSeemUsWouldIdea
Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.
NatureManI AmMeCloudYou
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
SayingYouFindNothingSpecialWay
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
NatureSimplicityHimNobleOnly
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
PeopleStartDieHungerNecessary
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