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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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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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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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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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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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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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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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