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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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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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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ambition and suspicion always go together.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
Georg C. Lichtenberg
