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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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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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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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