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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.
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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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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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 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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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