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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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