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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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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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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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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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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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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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