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Letter "G" » Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes
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«We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| About:
Wisdom
«It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
household, hunt, hunt down, purposeful, purposeless, wanderings, well-ordered
«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.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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Almighty, Day of Judgment, definitions, footsteps, Judgment Day, resound, resounded, resounding, resounds, the Almighty
«What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
| Keywords:
characterizes
«It is as though our languages were in state of confusion: when we want an idea they bring us a word, when we require a word they bring us a dash, and when we expected a dash there stands an obscenity.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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obscenity
«It is we who are the measure of what is strange and miraculous: if we sought a universal measure the strange and miraculous would not occur and all things would be equal.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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The Strange
«Probably no invention came more easily to man than Heaven»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men»
«Ambition and suspicion always go together.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
«With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.»
Author: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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