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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.
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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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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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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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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