We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especial… — Quoted

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“We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.”

Georg C. Lichtenberg · Loneliness

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Georg C. Lichtenberg

One must judge men not by their opinions, but by what their opinions have made of them.

Men

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

Men

Georg C. Lichtenberg

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Age

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Nature