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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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Physicist
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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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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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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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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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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