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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
Scientist
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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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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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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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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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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