Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
applause work power
We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
nature
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.
nature beauty
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.
man nature
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.
nature humannature
What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
simplicity work nature
He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.
theend
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
age thetimes time
principles thetimes time
If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.
sound philosophy thetimes time
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
age
One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
age education
If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
man character
Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
candles man
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