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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
University Teacher
Writer
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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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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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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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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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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