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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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If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.
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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 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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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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To be content with life or to live merrily, rather all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.
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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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He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.
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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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The ordinary man is ruined by the flesh lusting against the spirit the scholar by the spirit lusting too much against the flesh.
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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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A good means to discovery is to take away certain parts of a system to find out how the rest behaves.
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When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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The girl who reveals herself heart and soul to her friend reveals the secrets of the entire sex for every girl is the guardian of the feminine mysteries.
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What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?
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What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.
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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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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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