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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 trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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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.
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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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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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A good part of the fame of most celebrated men is due to the shortsightedness of their admirers
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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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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