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Georg C. Lichtenberg

" The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nature , Knowledge

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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. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Imagination , People , Poor

" The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Reason , Conviction

" One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men , Opinions

" The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Want

" The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nature , Simplicity

" 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. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ability , Man

" The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Ability , Man

" The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Nature , Knowledge

" The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

First , American , Columbus , Discovery

" That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Man , Fact , May

" Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Mankind , Sickness

" 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. "

Georg C. Lichtenberg

People , Talent

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