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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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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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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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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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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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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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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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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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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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