Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Georg C. Lichtenberg
German Scientist
Born: Jul 1, 1742
Died: Feb 24, 1799
Man Many Nature Nothing Own People
Related authors: Albrecht Kossel Heinrich Schliemann Johannes Kepler Max Planck Polykarp Kusch Sebastian Thrun Wernher von Braun Wilhelm Ostwald
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
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. Georg C. Lichtenberg
People Genius Before Possess Perceiving Talent Itself Decade Done Century Much Certain Who Even Desires
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Judge Better Faults Feel Wiser Know Instrument Learn Subject Which Means Grow
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 me. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nature Me You Man Will Whatever Cloud Back Only Take Stuff Longer Make Am Being Bush Dough Even Here
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. Georg C. Lichtenberg
People Hunger Would Only Die Should Ever Start Necessary Millions
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions. Georg C. Lichtenberg
God Man Passions Reason Found
The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. Georg C. Lichtenberg
Dangerous Slightly Distorted Most Truths
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