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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes

«It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.»
«What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths»
«Man loves company even if only that of a small burning candle»
«To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation»
«The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.»
«I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.»
«The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.»
«God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.»
«Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself»
«The most accomplished monkey cannot draw a monkey, this only man can do; just as it is also only man who regards his ability to do this as a distinct merit»

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