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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
"I can remember going back a couple of years later and, you know, think about it and I was doing a, kind of a political survey, door to door, and everything and I couldn't find any men in the town. It was very strange, you know."
"The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them."
"Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair."
Explore more quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg
"It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into."
"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."
"He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery."
"With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed."
"To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject."
"To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still."
"Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity."
"To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite."
"There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly."
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