More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
  2. A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through …
  3. Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
  4. Ideas too are a life and a world.
  5. We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
  6. I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up.
  7. The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of …
  8. Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

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