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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg war deutscher Naturforscher und Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“I have written a good number of drafts and small reflections. They are not waiting for the last touch but for the sunlight to wake them up.”

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B 29
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“People nowadays have such high hopes of America and the political conditions obtaining there that one might say the desires, at least the secret desires, of all enlightened Europeans are deflected to the west, like our magnetic needles.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“Ideas too are a life and a world.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.”

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L 49
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook L (1793-1796)

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

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C 26
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

“Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.”

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F 53
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.”

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B 44
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.”

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K 68
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.”

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G 46
Variant translation: The inclination of people to consider small things as important has produced many great things.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“To be content with life — or to live merrily, rather — all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.”

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K 29
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.”

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F 69
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“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.”

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J 146
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

“One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.”

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K 51
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.”

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J 10
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”

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D 66
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

“It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.”

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D 58
The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)