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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.
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
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Physicist
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København
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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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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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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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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