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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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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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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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