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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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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.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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