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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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