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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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