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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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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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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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