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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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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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The world is a body common to all men, changes to it bring about a change in the souls of all men who are turned towards that part of it at that moment.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Ideas too are a life and a world.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
