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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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København
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Men
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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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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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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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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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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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