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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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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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