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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
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Physicist
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København
Masterpiece
Creation
Men
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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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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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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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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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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