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As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.
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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There are two ways of extending life: firstly by moving the two points born and died farther away from one another. The other method is to go more slowly and leave the two points wherever God wills they should be, and this method is for the philosophers.
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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
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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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Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.
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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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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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The greatest things in the world are brought about by other things which we count as nothing: little causes we overlook but which at length accumulate.
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If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.
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Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.
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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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The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.
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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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