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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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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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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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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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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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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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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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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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