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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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I forget the greater part of what I read, but all the same it nourishes my mind.
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If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.
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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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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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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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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
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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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An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last return
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed.
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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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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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