List of Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The "second sight" possessed by the highlanders in scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. i believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.
Believe Sight Scotland
The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.
Men Heaven Fear Of Death
Here take back the stuff that i am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
Suicide Nature Suicidal
The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
Sex Race
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Ideas Body Nobility
What i do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the almighty.
Genius Definitions Judgment
The construction of the universe is certainly very much easier to explain than is that of the plant.
Science Construction Plant
It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: i wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.
Children Sarcasm Mind
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? i don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
Drawing Sometimes Deny
To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
Believe Character People
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
Science
How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers?
Science Letters Might
  • Born: July 1, 1742
  • Died: February 24, 1799
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