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A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
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
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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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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Some people feel with their heads and think with their hearts.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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Pain warns us not to exert our limbs to the point of breaking them. How much knowledge would we not need to recognize this by the exercise of mere reason.
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We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever as they are.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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