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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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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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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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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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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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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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