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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

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

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Want

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

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Men

Opinions

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Conviction

Reason

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.