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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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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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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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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
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