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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
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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French Moralist
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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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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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Many a man who is willing to be shot for his belief in a miracle would have doubted, had he been present at the miracle itself.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.
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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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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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