Georg C. Lichtenberg

(11 votes)   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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
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(325 votes)   Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(324 votes)   Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(317 votes)   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
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(306 votes)   The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(296 votes)   What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(283 votes)   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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(271 votes)   If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(268 votes)   He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(257 votes)   Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(256 votes)   If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(254 votes)   I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(245 votes)   If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(235 votes)   If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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