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In every man there is something of all men.
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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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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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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One use of dreams is that, unprejudiced by our often forced and artificial reflections, they represent the impartial outcome of our entire being.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Man is so perfectable and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
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It is astonishing how much the word infinitely is misused: everything is infinitely more beautiful, infinitely better, etc. The concept must have something pleasing about it, or its misuse could not have become so general.
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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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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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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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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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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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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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Those who never have time do least
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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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There is no more important rule of conduct in the world than this: attach yourself as much as you can to people who are abler than you and yet not so very different that you cannot understand them.
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With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
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