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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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Scientist
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Those who never have time do least
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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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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