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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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København
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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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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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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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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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