More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
  2. The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
  3. There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
  4. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  5. What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
  6. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
  7. People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the s…
  8. The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.

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