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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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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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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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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Propositions on which all men are in agreement are true: if they are not true we have no truth at all.
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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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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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