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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: In each of us there is...


Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

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

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


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Dans chaque homme il y a quelque chose de tous les hommes.

German
In jedem Menschen ist etwas von allen Menschen.




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I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

From one, learn all.

I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.




Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.





No man is weak by choice.





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.











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.





My body is that part of the world which my thoughts can change. Even imaginary illnesses can become real ones. In the rest of the world, my hypotheses cannot change the order of things.












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