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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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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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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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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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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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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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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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