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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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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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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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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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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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