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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

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.


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Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Cet homme avait tant d'intelligence qu'il n'était presque plus bon à rien dans ce monde.

German
Der Mann hatte so viel Verstand, dass er fast zu nichts mehr in der Welt zu gebrauchen war.




See also 

See also...



I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.




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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