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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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København
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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