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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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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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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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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of 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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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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