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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with G >> Quotes By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
| Quote #1: | "Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself." |
| Quote #2: | "Before we blame, we should first see if we can't excuse." |
| Quote #3: | "To read means to borrow to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts." |
| Quote #4: | "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." |
| Quote #5: | "I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does." |
| Quote #6: | "There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible." |
| Quote #7: | "A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents." |
| Quote #8: | "He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won't encounter many rivals." |
| Quote #9: | "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." |
| Quote #10: | "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." |
| Quote #11: | "He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards." |
| Quote #12: | "It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists." |
| Quote #13: | "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." |
| Quote #14: | "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all." |
| Quote #15: | "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together." |
| Quote #16: | "The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." |
| Quote #17: | "One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything." |
| Quote #18: | "What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes" |
| Quote #19: | "First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again - and, moreover, give reasons why we believe." |
| Quote #20: | "Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him." |
| Quote #21: | "Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own." |
| Quote #22: | "To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation." |
| Quote #23: | "With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another." |
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