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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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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 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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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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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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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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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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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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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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