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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
Astronomer
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
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Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
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There are people who can believe anything they wish. What lucky creatures!
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If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
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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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One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
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Those who have racked their brains to discover new proofs have perhaps been induced to do so by a compulsion they could not quite explain to themselves. Instead of giving us their new proofs they should have explained to us the motivation that constrained them to search for them.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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Delicacy in woman is strength.
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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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Never trust a man who lays his hand on his heart when he assures you of anything.
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Ideas too are a life and a world.
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After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
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No despotism is so formidable as that of a religion or a scientific system.
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