Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes About Philosophy
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.
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It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be put to use by our purposeful philosophy in its well-ordered household.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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