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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
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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 heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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