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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
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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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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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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