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Quotes by Georg Lichtenberg

" 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 Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
 
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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.

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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Georg Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
 
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Nothing contributes more to peace of soul than having no opinion at all.

Georg Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
 
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths.

Georg Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
 
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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 Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
 
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Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede, not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.

Georg Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
 
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

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A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

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