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Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Georg C. Lichtenberg quotes

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

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Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have..."
Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. 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
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err,..."
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. Georg C. Lichtenberg
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
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. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is..."
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "If people should ever start to do only what is necessary..."
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. 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
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses..."
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg C. Lichtenberg quote: "Men still have to be governed by deception."
Men still have to be governed by deception. Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority. Georg C. Lichtenberg
To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be. Georg C. Lichtenberg
...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. Georg C. Lichtenberg

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