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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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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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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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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 all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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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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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.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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