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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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