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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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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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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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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them sold by people who don't understand them bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them and now even written by people who don't understand them.
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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.
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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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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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