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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
In each of us there is a little of all of us.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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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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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
