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

Quote by Georg C Lichtenberg

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We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of...

We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or...

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on...

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on...

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...

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...

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.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly...

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

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...

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so...

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are...

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no...

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no...

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of...

If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until...

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...

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough...

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.

Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.