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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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What we are able to judge with feeling is very little the rest is all prejudice and complaisance.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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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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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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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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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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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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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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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Ambition and suspicion always go together.
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