The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't...

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many...

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many...

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of...

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe...

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble...

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble...

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants...

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants...

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree...

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is...

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a...

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent,...

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if...

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his...

I believe that man is in the last resort so free a being that his...