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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
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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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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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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