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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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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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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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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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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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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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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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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