More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. 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 …
  2. 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.
  3. I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
  4. Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
  5. Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.
  6. 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 …
  7. Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
  8. If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever.... Just as we hit water when we…

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