Quote #79
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
- We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
- The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
- The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
- To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
- He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
- There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
- Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.