“Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: age
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It is almost everywhere the case that
“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
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: wisdom
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One must judge men not by their
“One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: men
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Delight at having understood a very abstract
“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: truth
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Everyone is a genius at least once
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: intelligence
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical
“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
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: men
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human
“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
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: nature
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God created man in His own image,
“God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: god
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I cannot say whether things will get
“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
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
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We accumulate our opinions at an age
“We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: age
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Much can be inferred about a man
“Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.”
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Author: Georg C. Lichtenberg
Category: dreams
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