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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 fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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