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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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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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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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