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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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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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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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 were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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