Georg C. Lichtenberg

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With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

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commentator , often , more
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With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

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most , people , disbelief
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.

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pen , hand , successfully
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

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

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knowledge
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

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someone , occupies , official
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

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wisdom
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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.

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alone
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.

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obliged , regard , many
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We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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age
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

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virtue , premeditation , worth
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

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grow , wiser , means
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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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err , human , also
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.

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opposite , something , also
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There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.

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greater , impediment , progress