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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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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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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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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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