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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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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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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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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 motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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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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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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