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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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It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly.
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To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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The rules of grammar are mere human statutes, which is why when he speaks out of the possessed the Devil himself speaks bad Latin.
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The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.
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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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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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What makes our poetry so contemptible nowadays is its paucity of ideas. If you want to be read, invent. Who the Devil wouldn't like to read something new?
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
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Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.
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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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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Diogenes, filthily attired, paced across the splendid carpets in Plato's dwelling. Thus, said he, do I trample on the pride of Plato. Yes, Plato replied, but only with another kind of pride.
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The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.
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