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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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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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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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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