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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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