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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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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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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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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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In every man there is something of all men.
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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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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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