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Georg C. Lichtenberg


German
July 1, 1742
Scientist
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.


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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.


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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.


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Tags: God Man Reason
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.


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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.


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Tags: He His Person
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One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.


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Tags: Men Them Made
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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Tags: Say Someone Him
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.


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Tags: Age Truth Even
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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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Tags: Out Look Book
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.


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Tags: Time Our Will
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Tags: Nature Who Only
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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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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Tags: Other Man Also
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
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Tags: Them Never Only
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.
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Tags: Know Which Feel
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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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.
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