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
Quotes 81 till 100 of 121.
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
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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.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.
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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.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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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.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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