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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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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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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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