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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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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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As nations improve, so do their gods.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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