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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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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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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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