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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.
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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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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