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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
Age: 56 †
Born: 1742
Born: July 1
Died: 1799
Died: February 24
Astronomer
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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University Teacher
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København
Wide
General
Soul
Libraries
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Library
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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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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
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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 drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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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 American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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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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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
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