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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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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