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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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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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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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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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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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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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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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