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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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