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In his , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such ill use of him: 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.
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Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Courage, garrulousness and the mob are on our side. What more do we want?
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A on his lips and not-A in his heart.
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Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Man loves company -- even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
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