Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)
Georg C. Lichtenberg quotes and sayings page 4 (scientist). Here's quote # 31 through 40 out of the 75 we have.
“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”
“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”
“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”
“It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.”
“If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.”
“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.”
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
“The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.”
“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.”
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