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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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