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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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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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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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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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