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I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.


Georg Brandes

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GEORG C. LICHTENBERG It is better to create than to be learned, creating is the true essence of life.
BARTHOLD GEORG NIEBUHR To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of the...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be impa...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered a...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing th...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider eve...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN Men still have to be governed by deception.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misun...
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Never suffer the prejudice of the eye to determine the heart. -Johann Georg Zimmermann.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for de...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know eve...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG