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The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches are made.
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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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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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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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God created man in His own image, says the Bible philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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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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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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