G. C. Lichtenberg
German writer and physicist
Lived from: 1742 - 1799
Category: Scientists | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
Germany
Born: 1 july 1742 Died: 24 february 1799
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficulty: elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.
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Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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First we have to believe, and then we believe.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.
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He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
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He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.
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He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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.
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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.
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