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G. C. Lichtenberg

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

G. C. Lichtenberg

One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying.

G. C. Lichtenberg

With most people doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.

G. C. Lichtenberg

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won’t encounter many rivals.

self, self, knowledge

G. C. Lichtenberg

The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter’s facility for expression.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Every man has his moral backside too which he doesn’t expose unnecessarily but keeps covered as long as possible by the trousers of decorum.

morality, ethics

G. C. Lichtenberg

If moderation is a fault then indifference is a crime.

indifference, apathy

G. C. Lichtenberg

Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede – not because they have a hundred feet but because most people can’t count above fourteen.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Everyone is a genius at least once a year a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

G. C. Lichtenberg

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit – nay than they think.