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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Quote of Georg Christoph Lichtenberg: Doubt everything at least once, even...


Biography - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

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

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



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Mets tout en doute, au moins une fois, même si ce n'est que la phrase : deux fois deux font quatre.

German
Zweifle an allem wenigstens Einmal, und wäre es auch der Satz: zweimal 2 ist 4.




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See also...



If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

First, anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must "once in his life" withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself, to overthrow and build anew all the sciences that, up to then, he has been accepting.




Quotes for: doubt


Quotes

Quotes about doubt:


Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.





To be, or not to be, that is the question.





When in doubt, follow the suit of the wise and prudent.





But the most beautiful of all doubts
Is when the downtrodden and despondent raise their heads and
Stop believing in the strength
Of their oppressors.






Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.











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.





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.





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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