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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.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
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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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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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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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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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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
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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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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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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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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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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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