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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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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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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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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 a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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