More from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

  1. The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
  2. The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.
  3. The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
  4. He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.
  5. The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
  6. Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
  7. To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.
  8. With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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