Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“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.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“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?” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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“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.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. – Georg C. Lichtenberg
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