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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nature, Weakness, Humans
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook G 7, 1799.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nature, Men, Humanity
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook D 58, 1799.

The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard them immediately on this account. For every hypothesis which once was sound was useful for thinking of previous phenomena in the proper interrelations and for keeping them in context. We ought to set down contradictory experiences separately, until enough have accumulated to make building a new structure worthwhile.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nature, Science, Thinking

All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Beauty, Nature, Math
"Lichtenberg: A Doctrine of Scattered Occasions". Book by Joseph Peter Stern, p. 84, 1959.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nature, Simplicity, Noble
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook H 1, 1799.

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.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
Suicide, Nature, Suicidal
"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.

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