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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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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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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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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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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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