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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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