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Deutsch Scientist, Writer July 1, 1742 – February 24, 1799

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Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning..."
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. Georg C. Lichtenberg
In his Comedy, Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet, as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: a clear proof that even in the days of Dante one praised the ancients without knowing why. This respect for poets one does not understand and yet wishes to equal is the source of the bad writing in our literature. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a..."
When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity. Georg C. Lichtenberg
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal..."
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. Georg C. Lichtenberg

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