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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.
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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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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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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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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