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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .

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
Scientist
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Men
Masterpiece
Creation

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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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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.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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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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