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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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Physicist
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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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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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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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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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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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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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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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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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