Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

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

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• I was always pretty ambitious, although it probably helps that I can't do anything else - apart from cleaning lavatories. But I remember my mum once said, 'I suppose you'll give it a year and see if you can make it as an actress?' And I said, 'No Mum, I think I'll give it 10.'

  

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• My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.

  

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• I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.

  

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• No one should be left to suffer alone.

  

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• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

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• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

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• When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

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• Donald Trump has made it clear that he regards Hungary highly.

  

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• I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.

  

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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

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• Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

  

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• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

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• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

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• Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

  

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• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

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• I was born in Mumbai. We stayed in a joint family. But in 1994, my father had to shift to Pune for business. I started working at a very early stage. Immediately after my SSC board examination, I took up odd jobs in shops, as I wanted to contribute to my family.

  

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• No, gentlemen, if I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

  

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• Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.

  

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• Oxford walls have a way of belittling us; and the Duke was loath to regard his doom as trivial. Aye, by all minerals we are mocked. Vegetables, yearly deciduous, are far more sympathetic.

  

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• We investigate the past not to deduce practical political lessons, but to find out what really happened.

  

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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
  • Remember
  • Nature
  • Alone