Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes on nature

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it... view

By: Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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... view

By: Georg C. Lichtenberg

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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing... view

By: Georg C. Lichtenberg

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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others... view

By: Georg C. Lichtenberg

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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... view

By: Georg C. Lichtenberg

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