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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
Men
Masterpiece
Creation

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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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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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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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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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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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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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One should never trust a person who, while assuring you of something, puts his hands on his heart.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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