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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ideas too are a life and a world.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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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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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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