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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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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København
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God
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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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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It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.
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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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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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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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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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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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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The motives that lead us to do anything might be arranged like the thirty-two winds and might be given names on the same pattern: for instance, bread-bread-fame or fame-fame-bread.
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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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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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