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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
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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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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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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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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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