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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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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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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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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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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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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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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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