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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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 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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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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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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