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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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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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In every man there is something of all men.
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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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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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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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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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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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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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