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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Scientist
University Teacher
Writer
København
Loss
Open
Eyes
Eye
Would
Shut
Life
Easily
Ears
Blessing
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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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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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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