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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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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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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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