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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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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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In every man there is something of all men.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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 be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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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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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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