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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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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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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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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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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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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
