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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
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University Teacher
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København
Masterpiece
Creation
Men

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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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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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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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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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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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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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The feeling of health can only be gained by sickness.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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