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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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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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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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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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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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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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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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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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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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