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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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