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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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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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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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