88 ordspråk av Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg föddes den July 1st 1742 och dog den 24 February 1799 - German writer
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 The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. |
| The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak. |
| The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit |
| The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth |
| The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted. |
| The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. |
| The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. |
| The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. |
| The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. |
| Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense |
| There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. |
| There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. |
| Those who never have time do least |
| To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. |
| To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation |
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