Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Citáty anglicky (strana 2)

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg byl německý vědec, satirik. Citáty anglicky.
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“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.”

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F 149
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was — nobody any longer wanted to be that.”

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C 36
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook C (1772-1773)

“Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.”

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B 37 "Speech of a suicide composed shortly before the act."
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“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.”

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E 65
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”

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J 70
Variant translation: The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

“The most dangerous untruths are truths moderately distorted.”

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H 7
Variant translation: The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)

“Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.”

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B 12
Variant translation: Everyone has a moral backside, which he does not show except in case of need and which he covers as long as possible with the breeches of respectability.
As quoted in Der Witz und seine Beziehung zum Unbewussten [Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious] (1905) by Sigmund Freud, as translated by James Strachey (1960), p. 100
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.”

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B 41
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook B (1768-1771)

“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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E 76
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

“There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.”

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K 72
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook K (1789-1793)

“One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.”

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A 10
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook A (1765-1770)

“Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.”

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As quoted in A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (1991) edited by Alan Lindsay Mackay, p. 153

“Popular presentation today is all too often that which puts the mob in a position to talk about something without understanding it.”

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G 32
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.”

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J 157
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

“The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.”

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D 20
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)

“He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.”

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H 10
Variant translation: He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage — he won't encounter many rivals.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook H (1784-1788)

“Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.”

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F 78
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.”

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F 44
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook F (1776-1779)

“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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G 30
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)

“Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.”

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J 77
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)