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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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