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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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