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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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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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We judge nothing so hastily as character, and yet there is nothing over which we should be more cautious.... I have always found that the so-called bad people improve on closer acquaintance, while the good fall off.
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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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Never undertake anything unless you have the heart to ask Heaven's blessing on your undertaking.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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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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To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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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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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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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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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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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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He who understands the wise is wise already.
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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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