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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

God creates the animals man creates himself.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can’t do anything from early habit.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Too much is unwholesome.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

prejudice, prejudices

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.

judge, judgement, judging, opinions

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.

criticism, critics, mediocrity

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

crazy, insanity, madness

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done ‘for the Fatherland’.

government, liberty, politics

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called “Damn It”.

england, humour

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

absurdity, belief, life