{"author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg","total_quotes":33,"quotes":[{"text":"I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["absurdity","belief","life"],"id":12269,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["independence","philosophy"],"id":29550,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["distortion","falsehood","lies","truth"],"id":40656,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["diogenes","plato","pride"],"id":42131,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"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.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["prejudice","prejudices"],"id":45370,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"God creates the animals  man creates himself.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["self","reliance"],"id":62718,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called 'Damn It'.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["england","humour"],"id":74980,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["criticism","critics","mediocrity"],"id":83510,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["one","day"],"id":86948,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"},{"text":"Don't judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him.","author":"Georg Christoph Lichtenberg","tags":["judge","judgement","judging","opinions"],"id":163779,"author_id":"Georg+Christoph+Lichtenberg"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}