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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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To see every day how people get the name 'genius' just as the wood-lice in the cellar the name 'millipede'-not because they have that many feet, but because most people don't want to count to 14-this has had the result that I don't believe anyone any more without checking.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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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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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies. The world needs such men more than Heaven does.
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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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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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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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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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