I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: life belief absurdity



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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: life past future present happiness eternity time religion



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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: reading books library



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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: intellectuals



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I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: politics liberty government



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Many are less fortunate than you’ may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: life hope



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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


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A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg


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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: humor intelligence books vacuity



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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Tags: intelligence books mirrors



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