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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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 most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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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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He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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