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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
University Teacher
Writer
København
Masterpiece
Creation
Men

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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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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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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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