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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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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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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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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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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