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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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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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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.
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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 greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
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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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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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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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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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