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One has to do something new in order to see something new.

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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Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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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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A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
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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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The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.
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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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The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
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If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.
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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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