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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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Physicist
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København
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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