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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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 fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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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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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Non cogitant, ergo non sunt.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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