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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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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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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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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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 rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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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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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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