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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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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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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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