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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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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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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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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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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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 feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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