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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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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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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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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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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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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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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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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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.
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