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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
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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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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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 fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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