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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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Do not commence your exercises in philosophy in those regions where an error can deliver you over to the executioner.
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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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It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
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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 be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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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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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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A good method of discovery is to imagine certain members of a system removed and then see how what is left would behave: for example, where would we be if iron were absent from the world: this is an old example.
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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.
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The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.
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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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To make a vow is a greater sin than to break one.
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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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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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The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.
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Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.
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