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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

German physicist, satirist and Anglophile.
Born: 1742 - Died: 1799
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

There are people that can believe everything they want. These are happy creatures.


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Il y a des gens qui peuvent croire tout ce qu'ils veulent; ce sont d'heureuses créatures !

German
Es gibt Leute, die können alles glauben, was sie wollen; das sind glückliche Geschöpfe!




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See also...



Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

We are so constituted by Nature that we easily believe the things we hope for, but believe only with difficulty those we fear.

The greatest disorder of the mind is to believe certain things because we want them to be such and not because we have seen what they are.




Quotes

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg also said...


He who truly knows himself can soon come to know everyone else. Everything is reflection.





What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?





The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.





Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence “Two times two is four.”





Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.





In each of us there is a little of all of us.












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