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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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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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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 am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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