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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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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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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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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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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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