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Georg C. Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1 July 1742 – 24 February 1799) was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. As a scientist, he was the first to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physics in Germany. He is remembered for his posthumously published notebooks, which he himself called Sudelbücher, a description modelled on the English bookkeeping term "scrapbooks", and for his discovery of tree-like electrical discharge patterns now called Lichtenberg figures.

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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.

Heads, Heart, Hearts, People, Think, Thinking

Man is a masterpiece of creation. . .

Creation, Man, Masterpiece, Men

There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.

Doe, Everything, People, Sensible, Think, Thinking

We now possess four principles of morality: 1) a philosophical: do good for its own sake, out of respect for the law; 2) a religious: do good because it is God's will, out of love of God; 3) a human: do good because it will promote your happiness, out of self-love; 4) a political: do good because it will promote the welfare of the society of which you are a part, out of love of society having regard to yourself. But is this not all one single principle, only viewed from different sides?

Character, God, Philosophical, Principle, Religious, Single

It is with epigrams as with other inventions; the best ones annoy us because we didn't think of them ourselves.

Annoying, Invention, Inventions, Ones, Think, Thinking

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Acute, Back, Humans, Nature, Reflected, Weakness

Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

Believe, Confess, Doe, Good, Wish

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Dangerous, Distorted, Propaganda, Truth, Untruths

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

Believe, Cold, Faults, Men, Read

The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.

Art, Celebrated, Hearing, Seeing, Violin, Violins

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

Clouds, Dark, Gazes, Realm, Unfruitful, War

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his right to be what he believes himself to be cannot be contested.

Being Free, Believe, Believes, Contested, Men, Resort

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

Bible, Book, Common Sense, Religion, Turn

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Christian, Christians, Long, People

Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.

Everyone, Lay, Lays, Recognize, Writing, Written

Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Book, Lie, Lying, Pipes, Reading, Thousands

Barbaric accuracy - whimpering humility.

Accuracy, Capitalism, Humility, Whimpering

What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.

Discover, Math, Mind, Needs, Obliged, Use

Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse.

Blame, Excuse, Firsts, See

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

Badly, Character, Failing, Man, Men, Nothing

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