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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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