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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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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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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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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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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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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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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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