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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
Astronomer
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do 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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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