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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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Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.
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I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account.
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Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.
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A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.
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Love is blind, but marriage restores its sight.
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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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Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul.
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The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.
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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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I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to.
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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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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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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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In every man there is something of all men.
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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 most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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