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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
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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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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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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