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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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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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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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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One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.
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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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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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To read means to borrow to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
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Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.
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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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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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It is certainly not a matter of indifference whether I learn something without effort or finally arrive at it myself through my system of thought. In the latter case everything has roots, in the former it is merely superficial.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Is it not strange that mankind should so willingly battle for religion and so unwillingly live according to its precepts?
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.
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Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.
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One has to do something new in order to see something new.
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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'.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.
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