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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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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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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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