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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
Mathematician
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Physicist
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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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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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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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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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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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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