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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
Astronomer
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of 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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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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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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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