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They do not think, therefore they are not.
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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The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being.
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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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How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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The celebrated painter Gainsborough got as much pleasure from seeing violins as from hearing them.
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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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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.
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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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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.
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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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Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
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The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have not made very much progress in it and are secretly aware of this defect.
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
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If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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