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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
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French Moralist
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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 loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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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 noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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