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Georg C. Lichtenberg
German
Scientist
Born:
Jul 1
,
1742
Died:
Feb 24
,
1799
Man
Many
Nature
Nothing
Own
People
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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
Change
Better
Will
Say
Must
Get
Cannot
Whether
Things
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man
Only
Small
Candle
Burning
Loves
Company
Even
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Sickness
Greatest
Mankind
Defect
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
God
Bible
Man
Own
Philosophers
Says
Reverse
His
Process
Create
Created
Image
Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Our
Once
Weaknesses
Know
Cease
Any
Us
Harm
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Filthy
Our
Would
About
Seem
Obscene
Nobility
Idea
Heads
Did
Us
Bodies
Many
Things
Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man
Will
Free
Free Will
Creation
Other
Evidence
Determinism
Weight
He
Masterpiece
Than
Notwithstanding
Reason
Believes
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Book
Mirror
Out
Look
Likely
Looks
Ape
Apostle
Hardly
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
Good
Experience
Sometimes
Draw
Drawing
Wrong
Conclusions
Deny
Often
Just
Right
Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Dangerous
Become
Doubt
Otherwise
Must
More
Than
Vigilance
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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Law
Abolish
Aristocracy
How
Any
Cannot
Acquire
Decree
Who
Actual
Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Truth
Needs
Age
Brainy
Clad
New
New Age
Appeal
Even
Garments
Men still have to be governed by deception.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Men
Still
Governed
Deception
Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man
Long
Every
Unless
Backside
Possible
Moral
Trousers
He
Covered
His
Which
Decorum
Showing
Keeps
Every Man
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Time
History
Dark
Will
Thought
Own
Our
Dark Ages
Perhaps
So-Called
Ages
Including
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Wisdom
Wise
Words
Stupid
No Words
He
Understands
Speaking
Who
If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
You
Better
Build
Air
Something
Castles
Houses
Always
Than
Going
Cards
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Character
Man
Nothing
Else
Recognized
He
Badly
Takes
Fails
Surely
Which
Jest
I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Man
Free
Believe
Resort
He
Himself
Contested
His
Being
Cannot
Believes
Right
Last
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
Speak
Men
Difficult
Think
Resolving
Too
Would
Find
Point
Through
Instincts
Without
Effort
Any
Them
Prejudices
Many
Mechanical
Things
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Progress
Too
See
Impediment
Take
Greater
Sciences
Quickly
Than
Place
Desire
To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Imitation
Something
Namely
Also
Opposite
Form
Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Worth
Virtue
Much
Premeditation
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age
Understanding
Our
Weakest
Opinions
Accumulate
We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Crazy
Clever
Become
Our
Minds
Obliged
Until
Least
Regard
Many
Original
It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Fall
Makes
Question
Error
Bumped
Child
Hits
Wheel
Break
Whether
Chair
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