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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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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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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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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 motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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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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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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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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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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