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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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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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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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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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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