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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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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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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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