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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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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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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 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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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