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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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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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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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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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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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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