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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Scientist
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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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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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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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If it were true what in the end would be gained? Nothing but another truth. Is this such a mighty advantage? We have enough old truths still to digest, and even these we would be quite unable to endure if we did not sometimes flavor them with lies.
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He who knows himself properly can very soon learn to know all other men. It is all reflection.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
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Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
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Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?
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Man is a masterpiece of creation . . .
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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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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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It is a great shame most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.
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