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In each of us there is a little of all of us.

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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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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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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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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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