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A happy situation invented all of a piece makes the rest of the work easy; but those who try to embellish anything by means of mere flashes of thought have the very devil's work to do.
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That it is so easy to close our eyes and so difficult to close the ears -— at least we can do so only with our hands -- is proof positive that Heaven was more exercised in preserving our organs than our peace of mind. Yet the ears are our best watch- men during sleep. But what a mercy it would be, were we able to open and close our ears as easily as our eyes!
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Men seek liberty where it would make them unhappy-in political life, and reject it when it would make them happy, clinging blindly to the opinions of others. No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system. The Englishman who inveighs against the government is a slave to the opposition; and most men are slaves to fashion and foolish custom.
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Between the prerogatives of beauty and those of happiness there is a marked difference. To enjoy the advantages of beauty in the world it is indis- pensable that other people should consider one good-looking, whereas in the case of happiness this is not at all necessary; it is fully sufficient to consider oneself in that state.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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By sooth-saying it is quite possible to make a living in the world, but not by truth-saying.
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In a country where lovers' eyes shone in the dark you would need no lamps o' nights.
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I hardly think it possible to show that we are the work of a Supreme Being, and not, much more probably, creatures made for amusement's sake by a very imperfect one.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Our museums are full of ivory cups -— an indication of the pet hobby of our good forefathers: out of the material from which the Greek would have carved an Apollo they made drinking vessels.
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People make a great mistake in trying to judge a man's character or opinions from what he says and does in company. It is not always under the eye of a philosopher that we speak and act: an evening's pleasure may hang upon a sophistry. Does any sensible man judge Cicero's philosophy from his orations?
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It is a golden rule that one should never judge men by their opinions, but rather by what these opinions lead them to be.
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The reason why intercourse with sensible people is in every case so much to be recommended, is that in this way, by mere force of imitation, a blockhead may learn to act intelligently; for the greatest blockheads are capable of imitating -- even monkeys, poodles and elephants can do so.
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Of books known to everybody we should read only the very best, and afterwards only those which hardly anyone knows, but whose authors were men of genius.
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There is a certain virginity of soul in the case of girls, as also a moral defloration, which in many instances takes place very early.
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The one fault of really good books is that they are generally the cause of a great many bad or mediocre ones.
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To produce an artificial thought is not nearly so satisfactory or so stimulating to the intellect as to produce a natural one, for the former is really a kind of strain.
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Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very pro- ductive. Learning, too, may break into leaf without bearing fruit. We often find very shallow heads who astonish us by all they know. But what a person has to think out for himself leaves traces on the mind that may be used over again in other cases.
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If a whole town could be built on a pair of scales, how nice it would be to watch the constant vacillation.
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We read so many essays on genius nowadays that everyone thinks that he is one. The man is lost who considers himself a genius early in life.
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We should not dip too often into books dealing with branches of knowledge which we have still to learn. It has a discouraging effect. Let us always finish the work that we have in hand.
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It is in many instances easy to recognize an honest man, but not in all. The case is the same as with minerals: some are easily recognized at sight; with others chemical analysis is necessary, But who troubles himself about chemical analysis in judging character, or how many have the skill to employ it? Rapidity of decision in this matter is mainly to be attributed to the laziness of human nature; so that in practice the laboured chemical process gains few devotees.
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As in dreams we so often take objections of our own for those of another (as for instance in a dispute with someone), it surprises me that the same does not often occur when we are awake. The state of being awake, then, would seem to consist principally in this, that we then draw a sharp and proper distinction between what attaches to ourselves and what to others.
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A good way to attain sound common sense is to be constantly striving after clear ideas; and this, not merely by means of other people's definitions, but as far as possible by personal inquiry. We ought repeatedly to scrutinize things with the intention of finding something about them that others have not yet observed. Of every word we ought at least once to have given ourselves an explanation, and never use any that we do not understand.
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The journalists have built themselves a little wooden chapel, which they call the Temple of Fame. Here they nail up and take down portraits all day long, and hammer away so that you can hardly hear yourself speak.
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Why is it, I wonder, that unpleasant thoughts should worry us so much more on first awaking of a morning than a few hours afterwards, when the day has started and we are up and about; or why then more than at mid-day, or at night when we go to bed?
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It is an old rule that an impudent man can look modest when he wishes, but never the modest impudent.
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The English follow their feelings more than do other nations; and this is why they are so prone to admit new senses, as, for instance, the sense of truth, sense of beauty, moral sense, and so on.
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Human pride is a strange thing; it cannot easily be suppressed, and if you stop up hole A will peep forth again in a twinkling from another hole B, and if this is closed it is ready to come out at hole C, and so on.
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[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]
Ankoraŭ alia ekzemplo de tio, kovrante la tutan fenestron.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) (ref. : #whatshisface) estas la patro inventisto de la kopiilo. Sur tiu monteto mi volonte mortos. Batalu min! #fightme.
~duontravidebla~
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#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #skoda #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #GeorgChristophLichtenberg #copymachine #photocopy #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning
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[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]
Ankoraŭ alia ekzemplo de tio, kovrante la tutan fenestron.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) (ref. : #whatshisface) estas la patro inventisto de la kopiilo. Sur tiu monteto mi volonte mortos. Batalu min! #fightme.
~duontravidebla~
\eZ
#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #skoda #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #GeorgChristophLichtenberg #copymachine #photocopy #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning
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[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]
Ankoraŭ alia ekzemplo de tio, kovrante la tutan fenestron.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) (ref. : #whatshisface) estas la patro inventisto de la kopiilo. Sur tiu monteto mi volonte mortos. Batalu min! #fightme.
~duontravidebla~
\eZ
#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #skoda #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #GeorgChristophLichtenberg #copymachine #photocopy #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning
#translucent -
[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]
Ankoraŭ alia ekzemplo de tio, kovrante la tutan fenestron.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) (ref. : #whatshisface) estas la patro inventisto de la kopiilo. Sur tiu monteto mi volonte mortos. Batalu min! #fightme.
~duontravidebla~
\eZ
#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #skoda #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #GeorgChristophLichtenberg #copymachine #photocopy #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning
#translucent -
[ Frosta Filiko Fulmo ]
Ankoraŭ alia ekzemplo de tio, kovrante la tutan fenestron.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) (ref. : #whatshisface) estas la patro inventisto de la kopiilo. Sur tiu monteto mi volonte mortos. Batalu min! #fightme.
~duontravidebla~
\eZ
#miksang #dailypic #aphotoaday
#Esperanto #photography #photo
#winter #skibum #frost #frozen #freeze #ice #crystals #skoda #notsponsored #car #cars #autos #sublimation #lichtenberg #lichtenbergfigure #lichtenbergfigures
#whatshisface #GeorgChristophLichtenberg #copymachine #photocopy #fractal #fractals #fern #lightning
#translucent -
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Wurde in der Orthopädie nach einer Hüft-TEP OP immer gefragt, wie es mir ginge, der ich gerade im Bett lag und noch nicht wieder gehen konnte. Musste dabei an #GeorgChristophLichtenberg denken:
"Wie geht es, fragte ein Blinder einen Lahmen; Wie Sie sehen, war die Antwortet."
Spontan dieses Zitat aus den #sudelbucher auf einen Zettel geschrieben und dort angeheftet. -
#7Books of a lifetime - and to #knowme - fiction only, no order …
Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit - #MarcelProust
Das Buch von Himmel und Hölle - #JorgeLuisBorges, Adolfo Bioy Casares
Land des Lachens - #JonathanCarroll
Reise um den Tag in 80 Welten - #JulioCortazar
Sudelbücher - #GeorgChristophLichtenberg
Erzählungen - #AntonCechov
Owen Meany - #JohnIrving
Leben und Abenteuer der Trobadora Beatriz - #IrmtraudMorgner
But ... Jean Paul, Büchner, Kafka, Woolf … Oh!
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Who else keeps a waste book?I carry around a small notebook (usually a 48 page Field Notes) for short fleeting notes. Later I copy them into my commonplace book/zettelkasten/digital garden and expand upon them.
Waste books were used in the tradition of the commonplace book. A well known example is Isaac Newton’s Waste Book (MS Add. 4004) in which he did much of the development of the calculus. Another example is that of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, who called his waste books sudelbücher, and which were known to have influenced Leo Tolstoy, Albert Einstein, Andre Breton, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (2000). The Waste Books. New York: New York Review of Books Classics. ISBN 978-0940322509.
34.1777124-118.101887
