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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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To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.
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It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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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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People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
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What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.
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Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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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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I would give something to know for whose sake precisely those deeds were really done which report says were done for the fatherland.
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I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory and when I arrived I was tired.
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Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.
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Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.
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The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things
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Nothing makes one old so quickly as the ever-present thought that one is growing older.
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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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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
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Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
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