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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 To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts |
| To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts |
| Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much. |
| We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. |
| We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. |
| We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him |
| What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths |
| What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. |
| 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? |
| What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. |
| With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. |
| With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another. |
| You can make a good living from soothsaying, but not from truthsaying |
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