Quotes from Aphorisms — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
1742–1799 Germany
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger.
If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.