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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
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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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I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions.
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Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
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All mathematical laws which we find in Nature are always suspect to me, in spite of their beauty. They give me no pleasure. They are merely auxiliaries. At close range it is all not true.
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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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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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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.
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What you have been obliged to discover by yourself leaves a path in your mind which you can use again when the need arises.
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A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.
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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 says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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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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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.
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