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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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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French Moralist
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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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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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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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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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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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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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