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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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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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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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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.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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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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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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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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